How do I pass global config to jshint?

Question

How do I pass global config to jshint? I didn't find the answer in the documentation.

My config file:

>type tests\jshint_options.js
/*jshint globalstrict:true */

This is what I've tried so far:

>jshint myfile.js --config=tests\jshint_options.js
myfile.js: line 1, col 1, Use the function form of "use strict".
myfile.js: line 4, col 24, Unescaped '['.
myfile.js: line 4, col 49, Unescaped '['.

3 errors

>jshint myfile.js --config tests\jshint_options.js

node.js:201
        throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
              ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input
    at Object.parse (native)
    at _loadAndParseConfig (C:\Users\RONG\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\jshint\lib\cli.js:28:18)
    at Object.interpret (C:\Users\RONG\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\jshint\lib\cli.js:114:22)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\RONG\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\jshint\bin\hint:2:25)
    at Module._compile (module.js:441:26)
    at Object..js (module.js:459:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:348:31)
    at Function._load (module.js:308:12)
    at Array.0 (module.js:479:10)
    at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:192:40)

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Answer 1

After much digging, I found this helpful blog post that reveled ...

that the config file is in JSON format, not javascript comments!

{
    "supernew": true
}

P.S.

This is actually documented in nodejs-jshint documentations! Not sure why I haven't found that before.