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- add missing environment variables to --help
- add missing flags to man page
- sort environment variables alphabetically
- add some highlighting to the man page
- remove stops from descriptions in --help for consistency
- few other minor tweaks to --help
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silverwind committed Dec 22, 2016
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33 changes: 25 additions & 8 deletions doc/node.1
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Expand Up @@ -116,6 +116,15 @@ Print stack traces for process warnings (including deprecations).
Print a stack trace whenever synchronous I/O is detected after the first turn
of the event loop.

.TP
.BR \-\-trace\-events\-enabled
Enables the collection of trace event tracing information.

.TP
.BR \-\-trace\-event\-categories " " \fIcategories\fR
A comma separated list of categories that should be traced when trace event
tracing is enabled using \fB--trace-events-enabled\fR.

.TP
.BR \-\-zero\-fill\-buffers
Automatically zero-fills all newly allocated Buffer and SlowBuffer instances.
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\',\'\-separated list of core modules that should print debug information.

.TP
.BR NODE_PATH =\fIpath\fR[:\fI...\fR]
\':\'\-separated list of directories prefixed to the module search path.
.BR NODE_DISABLE_COLORS =\fI1\fR
When set to \fI1\fR, colors will not be used in the REPL.

.TP
.BR NODE_DISABLE_COLORS=1
When set to 1 colors will not be used in the REPL.
.BR NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS =\fIfile\fR
When set, the well known "root" CAs (like VeriSign) will be extended with the
extra certificates in \fIfile\fR. The file should consist of one or more
trusted certificates in PEM format. A message will be emitted (once) with
\fBprocess.emitWarning()\fR if the file is missing or misformatted, but any
errors are otherwise ignored.

.TP
.BR NODE_ICU_DATA =\fIfile\fR
Data path for ICU (Intl object) data. Will extend linked-in data when compiled
with small\-icu support.

.TP
.BR NODE_PATH =\fIpath\fR[:\fI...\fR]
\':\'\-separated list of directories prefixed to the module search path.

.TP
.BR NODE_REPL_HISTORY =\fIfile\fR
Path to the file used to store the persistent REPL history. The default path
is ~/.node_repl_history, which is overridden by this variable. Setting the
is \fB~/.node_repl_history\fR, which is overridden by this variable. Setting the
value to an empty string ("" or " ") disables persistent REPL history.

.TP
.BR NODE_TTY_UNSAFE_ASYNC=1
When set to 1, writes to stdout and stderr will be non-blocking and asynchronous
when outputting to a TTY on platforms which support async stdio.
.BR NODE_TTY_UNSAFE_ASYNC =\fI1\fR
When set to \fI1\fR, writes to stdout and stderr will be non-blocking and
asynchronous when outputting to a TTY on platforms which support async stdio.
Setting this will void any guarantee that stdio will not be interleaved or
dropped at program exit. \fBAvoid use.\fR

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23 changes: 12 additions & 11 deletions src/node.cc
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Expand Up @@ -3482,8 +3482,7 @@ static void PrintHelp() {
"repeated)\n"
" --no-deprecation silence deprecation warnings\n"
" --trace-deprecation show stack traces on deprecations\n"
" --throw-deprecation throw an exception anytime a deprecated "
"function is used\n"
" --throw-deprecation throw an exception on deprecations\n"
" --no-warnings silence all process warnings\n"
" --trace-warnings show stack traces on process warnings\n"
" --trace-sync-io show stack trace when use of sync IO\n"
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" --icu-data-dir=dir set ICU data load path to dir\n"
" (overrides NODE_ICU_DATA)\n"
#if !defined(NODE_HAVE_SMALL_ICU)
" note: linked-in ICU data is\n"
" present.\n"
" note: linked-in ICU data is present\n"
#endif
" --preserve-symlinks preserve symbolic links when resolving\n"
" and caching modules.\n"
" and caching modules\n"
#endif
"\n"
"Environment variables:\n"
#ifdef _WIN32
"NODE_PATH ';'-separated list of directories\n"
#else
"NODE_PATH ':'-separated list of directories\n"
#endif
" prefixed to the module search path.\n"
"NODE_DEBUG ','-separated list of core modules that\n"
" should print debug information\n"
"NODE_DISABLE_COLORS set to 1 to disable colors in the REPL\n"
"NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS path to additional CA certificates file\n"
#if defined(NODE_HAVE_I18N_SUPPORT)
"NODE_ICU_DATA data path for ICU (Intl object) data\n"
#if !defined(NODE_HAVE_SMALL_ICU)
" (will extend linked-in data)\n"
#endif
#endif
#ifdef _WIN32
"NODE_PATH ';'-separated list of directories\n"
#else
"NODE_PATH ':'-separated list of directories\n"
#endif
" prefixed to the module search path\n"
"NODE_REPL_HISTORY path to the persistent REPL history file\n"
"\n"
"Documentation can be found at https://nodejs.org/\n");
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