Optional options need to be

[kyle-long]

It appears that when using requireFlags and laxPlacement optional options are required to be grouped together still.

#!/usr/bin/env node
var args, help, neodocOptions;

help = `Usage:

    test.js -a -b [OPTIONS]

Options:

    -a  blah blah blah
    -b  blah blah blah
    -c  blah blah blah
    -d  blah blah blah
`;
neodocOptions = {
    laxPlacement: true,
    requireFlags: true
}
args = require("neodoc").run(help, neodocOptions);
console.log("Success");

Here are some cases I ran against it.

$ ./test.js -c -a -b -d
test.js: unexpected option -d
...
$ ./test.js -c -a -d -b
test.js: expected -b, but got -d
...
$ ./test.js -a -c -b
Success
...
$ ./test.js -d -c -a -b
Success
...
$ ./test.js -a -b -c -d
Success

According to the docs for laxPlacement it sounds like this should work. Advice?

[felixSchl]

It's a known, annoying behavior. It's actually caused by [options] expanding to an optional group of optional flags, in your case it would be: -a -b [-c d], which should really be -a -b -c -d.

I've got a patch lying around, originally written in response to #85 that fixes your issue. Will be published in minutes as 1.4.0.

[felixSchl]

I've added your testcases to the suite and they all pass now as of version 1.4.0

[kyle-long]

Wow that was quick. Thanks! Do you plan to publish to npm soon?

[felixSchl]

Should be published now

[kyle-long]

Got side tracked. Works great! Thanks so much