requestchoice(1)

📦 version 0.22pl2, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💬 requestchoice — request a user choice 💬

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for requestchoice, a lil command from the General Commands Manual section 1, and she's here to make your terminal pop a whole window at you. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

requestchoice — request a user choice 💅

like... it asks the human a question. that's the whole job. iconic.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

requestchoice title text [ b1 ] [ b2 ] [ ... ] [ b0 ]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. a title, some text, and then a lil stack of buttons for your bestie to click. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page documents briefly the requestchoice command. and ngl, the tea here is that this page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution specifically because the original program does not have a manual page. so we made one. we showed up. we did the work. main character energy fr fr. 💖

requestchoice is a program that pops up a window with:

  • a title
  • a textarea
  • and one or more buttons from which the user can chose one

yes, "chose", that's what the original says, we are keeping it exactly, no notes. 😭

💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay so these aren't like, dash-flags, they're positional arguments, but they're still the options and we are listing every single one, periodt.

  • title — the title of the request window. it goes at the top, it's the header, it's giving window chrome. ✨
  • text — the text in the body of the request window. this is where you say the actual thing you wanna say. 🎀
  • b1, b2, ... — the text on the button. okay so this is the part you need to pay attention to, bestie, because the numbering is a whole thing. they're numbered from left to right, with the rightmost button being "button 0" and the leftmost being "button 1". yes. zero is on the right. one is on the left. it's giving backwards but that's just how she is. when clicked, requestchoice will print the button number to stdout. 🔥
lowkey important: the rightmost button is 0 and the leftmost is 1, so your button numbers go right to left even though the buttons themselves are described left to right. iykyk. don't get it twisted. 💀

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Jorgen Schaefer <forcer@mindless.com> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). slay. respect the author. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this version of the page is from the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and it's dated March 3, 2000 — yeah she's vintage, she's an elder, she still ate and left no crumbs. 🌈⭐ mwah. 💜

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