Bug | Exiting Screen about sl

[kugiyasan]

I think sl -e will do what you want.

@kugiyasan I give the parameter --help to the sl command and i can escape the train with CTRL+C
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[kugiyasan]

@xVoiceSyntax oops sorry I misread that!
Anyway, I went to read the code, and the issue you're pointing seems old. I tried running the sl that is in the ubuntu repo (v3.03) and I was able to reproduce your experience. This was caused by the simple argument parser that is still used. It simply checks if the argument starts with "-", and then toggle on all options for the letters after the "-". When you run "sl --help", the code sees "e" and "l" in the word "help", so the train becomes little and you can escape out of it.

In v5.03 (the latest version), the -e argument isn't accepted anymore, so your issue is solved (kinda). If you want to install the newer version of sl, clone the repo, compile it, and replace the old sl in /usr/games by the new one.

git clone https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl.git
cd sl
make
mv /usr/games/sl /usr/games/oldsl
mv sl /usr/games