[feature request] hide default value and flag type on individual option

[ljharb]

#1145 / #2153 / #2156 implemented an "all or nothing" way to hide this, but the use case I've had is to hide the default value, and/or the flag type, on a specific value.

In other words, I want to be able to override the global setting per-option.

[bcoe]

@ljharb I'm wondering if @jly36963's approach could be extended to accept a map rather than a boolean option.

[ljharb]

Sure, that's fine! As long as it's configurable per-option I'm happy :-)

Since it doesn't affect the types of the option values, there's no argument to keep it in the .option invocation either, I think.

[Nantris]

Also interested in this functionality.

[shadowspawn]

This isn't a full solution, but there is a partial solution for a "secret" in a default value (interesting case):

const yargs = require('yargs/yargs');

const argv = yargs(process.argv.slice(2))
    .option('user', { type: 'string' })
    .option('password', { type: 'string', default: 'super-secret', defaultDescription: 'REDACTED' })
    .parse();

console.log(argv);

 % node index.js --help
Options:
  --help      Show help                                                [boolean]
  --version   Show version number                                      [boolean]
  --user                                                                [string]
  --password                                        [string] [default: REDACTED]