Splitting the usage strings would become very messy, even more since adding newlines would stop 'wordwrap' from working. I decided to just turn length checking off instead.

For the usage strings, you can just precede your super-long strings with:

/* jshint maxlen:false */

and then afterwards:

/* jshint maxlen:80 */

Ah, yes, that's the better solution.

Seems like jshint/jshint#1313 prevents me from doing that (my best guess is that it sees the node option as being inside an anonymous function). Wrapping the argument parsing inside a function and disabling maxlen for that function only works, so I used that as a workaround.

ah okay, good to know