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lib: Improve readability of help text in node --help #23016

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  • make -j4 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test (Windows) passes
  • tests and/or benchmarks are included
  • documentation is changed or added
  • commit message follows commit guidelines

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I think the current text was intentional; reading from stdin is the default when no other file name is provided, and if stdin is a TTY we enter interactive mode?

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vsemozhetbyt commented Sep 22, 2018

It seems the "reading from stdin" is wider than "interactive mode" (it may be a command chain), so this is a note about a partial case, not the definition of "default", and the semicolon seems valid.

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ah! I see it now, thanks for the clarification.

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@gireeshpunathil That doesn’t mean we can’t improve here … I agree that this is not immediately obvious. Maybe we could change it to something like default if no file name is provided; …?

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I reworded the help message for better readability, PTAL.

@gireeshpunathil gireeshpunathil changed the title lib: fix punctuation in help text lib: Improve readability of help text in node --help Sep 22, 2018
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danbev commented Sep 25, 2018

Re-run of failing node-test-commit-linux-containered and node-test-commit-linux/

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rebased and started a new CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/17491/

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only one known failure under node-test-commit-linux - not ok 46 async-hooks/test-statwatcher # TODO : Fix flaky test, so good to land.

@gireeshpunathil gireeshpunathil added the cli Issues and PRs related to the Node.js command line interface. label Sep 28, 2018
modified the `-` CLI option help text for
improved readability.

PR-URL: nodejs#23016

Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
@gireeshpunathil gireeshpunathil merged commit 0f78b9a into nodejs:master Sep 28, 2018
targos pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 28, 2018
modified the `-` CLI option help text for
improved readability.

PR-URL: #23016

Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
targos pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 3, 2018
modified the `-` CLI option help text for
improved readability.

PR-URL: #23016

Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
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