iojs -i does nothing when -e is used

[radare]

The following command should evaluate that expression and then enter into the REPL, but it does not

$ iojs -ie 'console.log ("hi")' 

[silverwind]

I'm not sure -i works like that:

  -i, --interactive    always enter the REPL even if stdin
                       does not appear to be a terminal

It appears to just be a switch to force a repl on strange terminals (with no other arguments).

[bnoordhuis]

Yes, that's what it's for. I suspect that the expectation is that -ie works like -ic does with python:

$ python -ic 'x = 42'
>>> x
42

Right now, it's rejected as a bad flag. I'd be fine with a PR that adds such functionality.

[Trott]

There are really two separate issues here:

• if -i and -e are specified, then -i is ignored
• if multiple flags are specified together (that is, something like node -ie rather than node -i -e), the CLI will not pick the flags apart

#5655 is a proposed fix to the first issue, but not the second one.

[Trott]

#5655 has landed so node -i -e will now work with node build from the current master branch. node -ie will be fixed by improved args parsing which @evanlucas hopes to land soon-ish.