Implement missing fbwhiptail features, minimally input, maybe multi selection

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
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Research direction

Start by reading the existing implementations in modules/newt and modules/fbwhiptail, focusing on how whiptail handles text input and multi-selection. Define the minimum supported behavior for each feature and verify it in the Heads workflows that use fbwhiptail.

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Description

Fbwhiptail was made in a night. It's now used everywhere under Heads, well mostly.

I'm working at color coding heads right now, and reducing noise and console input/output.

To go further, input for text is missing from whiptail (modules/newt) into fbwhiptail (modules/fbwhiptail)

Mutiselection to act as a configuration management as well would be nice to have.

Let's see what can be done?

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