Command line start up options and flags don't work correctly from the packaged binaries

[sedwards2009]

Starting up extraterm from a binary zip download and passing in some flags and options (e.g. --cygwinDir) doesn't parse the options correctly.

The problem is in the commander module which Extraterm uses to parse command line arguments. It assumes that the first two items in process.argv are the nodejs executable and then the name of script being executed. This assumption is violated when starting up the packaged version of Extraterm.

A workaround is to pass an extra dummy value before the first flag or option. i.e. extraterm.exe XXX --cygwinDir c:/foo

[sedwards2009]

See issue tj/commander.js#512

[sedwards2009]

Fixed in b08eeab

[tympanix]

I would assume this is a quick fix? I would love to see a universal solution that not only works with Electron but in general. You mention in #512 having two parse functions. I would like to give that a +1.