Adjust relative imports in TypeScript when using copy-paste

[alexdima]

When copying an import from a file, it would be nice if pasting it in another file would adjust the path

Copying the import from src/folder1/a.ts:

//@filename: src/folder1/a.ts
import { x } from './b';

It would be very useful if pasting it in src/folder2/a.ts would generate (note how the import path was correctly adjusted):

//@filename: src/folder2/a.ts
import { x } from '../folder1/b';

This will be very useful once we switch to relative imports starting from tomorrow.

[alexdima]

FYI @jrieken given what you demoed today

[mjbvz]

@navya9singh This sounds like something our smart copy paste should handle. Does it already do this today?

[navya9singh]

@navya9singh This sounds like something our smart copy paste should handle. Does it already do this today?

The smart copy paste does handle this situation in a way where say

//@filename: src/folder1/a.ts
import { x } from './b';
const y = x;

and const y = x is copy pasted into @filename: src/folder2/a.ts then it would change the import to be import { x } from '../folder1/b'; but if only the import is copy pasted, then it doesn't do anything. This is because the pasteEdits api returns no edits if no imports are added to the target file.

[mjbvz]

Thanks. It would be great to have this update any copy and pasted import statements too. I find myself doing that fairly often when creating new files