-e arg isn't working in Homebrew version (but works fine when compiled from source)

[luckman212]

Hey, first: amazing work on this tool! I'm using it to visualize memory pressure over time on my Mac.

v1.4 from Homebrew seems to have a problem with the -e option -- e.g. this will fail (just prints the helptext and then pauses for 1 second, then exits):

while [0]; do memory_pressure | awk 'END {print $5/1}'; sleep 1; done | ttyplot -e+ -cx -m100 -t%free_mem -u%

but, cloning master and compiling with make outputs a version where the exact same command works fine (also says 1.4 but obviously something's different).

macOS 10.15.5

Any idea?

[tenox7]

very interesting, let me investigate

[hartwork]

Turns out that:

• I can reproduce the problem for Git tag 1.4 locally
• The problem is that the optstring passed to getopt is missing e
• The problem has been fixed by commit d6a5ec9 already
• The first release including the fix is 1.5(.0)
• Issue option -e and -s/-m  #40 already reported the same problem but was already closed as fixed (but not released) when issue -e arg isn't working in Homebrew version (but works fine when compiled from source) #49 here was opened

I'll close as fixed, please re-open as needed.