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* Make `addLocationDataFn` more DRY

* Style fixes

* Provide access to full parser inside our custom function running in parser.js; rename the function to lay the groundwork for adding data aside from location data

* Fix style.

* Fix style.

* Label test comments

* Update grammar to remove comment tokens; update DSL to call new helper function that preserves comments through parsing

* New implementation of compiling block comments: the lexer pulls them out of the token stream, attaching them as a property to a token; the rewriter moves the attachment around so it lives on a token that is destined to make it through to compilation (and in a good placement); and the nodes render the block comment. All tests but one pass (commented out).

* If a comment follows a class declaration, move the comment inside the class body

* Style

* Improve indentation of multiline comments

* Fix indentation for block comments, at least in the cases covered by the one failing test

* Don’t reverse the order of unshifted comments

* Simplify rewriter’s handling of comments, generalizing the special case

* Expand the list of tokens we need to avoid for passing comments through the parser; get some literal tokens to have nodes created for them so that the comments pass through

* Improve comments; fix multiline flag

* Prepare HereComments for processing line comments

* Line comments, first draft: the tests pass, but the line comments aren’t indented and sometimes trail previous lines when they shouldn’t; updated compiler output in following commit

* Updated compiler, now with line comments

* `process` doesn’t exist in the browser, so we should check for its existence first

* Update parser output

* Test that proves #4290 is fixed

* Indent line comments, first pass

* Compiled output with indented line comments

* Comments that start a new line shouldn’t trail; don’t skip comments attached to generated tokens; stop looking for indentation once we hit a newline

* Revised output

* Cleanup

* Split “multiline” line comment tokens, shifting them forward or back as appropriate

* Fix comments in module specifiers

* Abstract attaching comments to a node

* Line comments in interpolated strings

* Line comments can’t be multiline anymore

* Improve handling of blank lines and indentation of following comments that start a new line (i.e. don’t trail)

* Make comments compilation more object-oriented

* Remove lots of dead code that we don’t need anymore because a comment is never a node, only a fragment

* Improve eqJS helper

* Fix #4290 definitively, with improved output for arrays with interspersed block comments

* Add support for line comments output interspersed within arrays

* Fix mistake, don’t lose the variable we’re working on

* Remove redundant replacements

* Check for indentation only from the start of the string

* Indentations in generated JS are always multiples of two spaces (never tabs) so just look for 2+ spaces

* Update package versions; run Babel twice, once for each preset, temporarily until a Babili bug is fixed that prevents it from running with the env preset

* Don’t rely on `fragment.type`, which can break when the compiler is minified

* Updated generated docs and browser compiler

* Output block comments after function arguments

* Comments appear above scope `var` declarations; better tracking of generated `JS` tokens created only to shepherd comments through to the output

* Create new FuncGlyph node, to hold comments we want to output near the function parameters

* Block comments between `)` and `->`/`=>` get output between `)` and `{`.

* Fix indentation of comments that are the first line inside a bare mode block

* Updated output

* Full Flow example

* Updated browser compiler

* Abstract and organize comment fragment generation code; store more properties on the comment fragment objects; make `throw` behave like `return`

* Abstract token insertion code

* Add missing locationData to STRING_START token, giving it the locationData of the overall StringWithInterpolations token so that comments attached to STRING_START end up on the StringWithInterpolations node

* Allow `SUPER` tokens to carry comments

* Rescue comments from `Existence` nodes and `If` nodes’ conditions

* Rescue comments after `\` line continuation tokens

* Updated compiled output

* Updated browser compiler

* Output block comments in the same `compileFragments` method as line comments, except for inline block comments

* Comments before splice

* Updated browser compiler

* Track compiledComments as a property of Base, to ensure that it’s not a global variable

* Docs: split up the Usage section

* Docs for type annotations via Flow; updated docs output

* Update regular comments documentation

* Updated browser compiler

* Comments before soak

* Comments before static methods, and probably before `@variable =` (this) assignments generally

* Comments before ‘if exists?’, refactor comment before ‘if this.var’ to be more precise, improve helper methods

* Comments before a method that contains ‘super()’ should output above the method property, not above the ‘super.method()’ call

* Fix missing comments before `if not` (i.e. before a UNARY token)

* Fix comments before ‘for’; add test for comment before assignment if (fixed in earlier commit)

* Comments within heregexes

* Updated browser compiler

* Update description to reflect what’s now happening in compileCommentFragments

* Preserve blank lines between line comments; output “whitespace-only” line comments as blank lines, rather than `//` following by whitespace

* Better future-proof comments tests

* Comments before object destructuring; abstract method for setting comments aside before compilation

* Handle more cases of comments before or after `for` loop declaration lines

* Fix indentation of comments preceding `for` loops

* Fix comment before splat function parameter

* Catch another RegexWithInterpolations comment edge case

* Updated browser compiler

* Change heregex example to one that’s more readable; update output

* Remove a few last references to the defunct HERECOMMENT token

* Abstract location hash creation into a function

* Improved clarity per code review notes

* Updated browser compiler
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### Command Line
Once installed, you should have access to the `coffee` command, which can execute scripts, compile `.coffee` files into `.js`, and provide an interactive REPL. The `coffee` command takes the following options:
| Option | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `-c, --compile` | Compile a `.coffee` script into a `.js` JavaScript file of the same name. |
| `-m, --map` | Generate source maps alongside the compiled JavaScript files. Adds `sourceMappingURL` directives to the JavaScript as well. |
| `-M, --inline-map` | Just like `--map`, but include the source map directly in the compiled JavaScript files, rather than in a separate file. |
| `-i, --interactive` | Launch an interactive CoffeeScript session to try short snippets. Identical to calling `coffee` with no arguments. |
| `-o, --output [DIR]` | Write out all compiled JavaScript files into the specified directory. Use in conjunction with `--compile` or `--watch`. |
| `-w, --watch` | Watch files for changes, rerunning the specified command when any file is updated. |
| `-p, --print` | Instead of writing out the JavaScript as a file, print it directly to **stdout**. |
| `-s, --stdio` | Pipe in CoffeeScript to STDIN and get back JavaScript over STDOUT. Good for use with processes written in other languages. An example:<br>`cat src/cake.coffee | coffee -sc` |
| `-l, --literate` | Parses the code as Literate CoffeeScript. You only need to specify this when passing in code directly over **stdio**, or using some sort of extension-less file name. |
| `-e, --eval` | Compile and print a little snippet of CoffeeScript directly from the command line. For example:<br>`coffee -e "console.log num for num in [10..1]"` |
| `-r, --require [MODULE]`&emsp; | `require()` the given module before starting the REPL or evaluating the code given with the `--eval` flag. |
| `-b, --bare` | Compile the JavaScript without the [top-level function safety wrapper](#lexical-scope). |
| `-t, --tokens` | Instead of parsing the CoffeeScript, just lex it, and print out the token stream. Used for debugging the compiler. |
| `-n, --nodes` | Instead of compiling the CoffeeScript, just lex and parse it, and print out the parse tree. Used for debugging the compiler. |
| `--nodejs` | The `node` executable has some useful options you can set, such as `--debug`, `--debug-brk`, `--max-stack-size`, and `--expose-gc`. Use this flag to forward options directly to Node.js. To pass multiple flags, use `--nodejs` multiple times. |
| `--no-header` | Suppress the “Generated by CoffeeScript” header. |
#### Examples:
* Compile a directory tree of `.coffee` files in `src` into a parallel tree of `.js` files in `lib`:<br>
`coffee --compile --output lib/ src/`
* Watch a file for changes, and recompile it every time the file is saved:<br>
`coffee --watch --compile experimental.coffee`
* Concatenate a list of files into a single script:<br>
`coffee --join project.js --compile src/*.coffee`
* Print out the compiled JS from a one-liner:<br>
`coffee -bpe "alert i for i in [0..10]"`
* All together now, watch and recompile an entire project as you work on it:<br>
`coffee -o lib/ -cw src/`
* Start the CoffeeScript REPL (`Ctrl-D` to exit, `Ctrl-V`for multi-line):<br>
`coffee`