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description of CLI option "-n" is misleading #42503

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From a Gitter user:

The description for the "-n" CLI option has this description:

-n, --new-window                          Force a new instance of Code.

This is misleading (or even wrong) because the options only forces a "new window".

On the other hand the CLI option "--user-data-dir" seems to create a new instance of VS Code, but doesn't say so in its description:

Specifies the directory that user data is kept in, useful when running as root.

We should improve the descriptions.

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