How to have an option with-a-dash in the name?

[ghost]

I was using the following code and I could have swore that it was working, but it does not seem to be working today. args["no-restart"] and args["init-default"] are always undefined even when they exist in process.argv as '--init-default' and '--no-restart'.

Is this supported and if not, is there any reason that it should not be?

exports.known = {
  help: Boolean, 
  "init-default": Boolean,
  "no-restart": Boolean,
  verbose: Boolean,
  version: Boolean,
  path: path
};

exports.aliases = {
  h: '--help', 
  v: '--version',
  V: '--verbose'
};

var args = nopt(exports.known, exports.aliases, process.argv, 2);
var remain = args.argv.remain;
if (remain && remain.length > 0) {
  args.path = remain[0];
}

args.initDefault = args["init-default"];
args.noRestart = args["no-restart"];
// ...

[ghost]

OK, I figured it out - you can't have a flag that starts with "no-" because nopt does auto-negation based on the "no-" prefix. (So you have to have a flag called "whatever" instead of "no-whatever".)