Automated imports: import style "auto" not working as expected

[bpasero]

Refs: #50488

I would expect "typescript.preferences.importModuleSpecifier": "auto" to use the style of the other imports in the file but it seems to behave differently?

[mjbvz]

Thanks. The description for "auto" is wrong here. For paths, "auto" actually tries using the shortest path instead of inferring path style like we do with quotes

[mjbvz]

The setting documentation explains the behavior now. Note that non-relative paths also require setting a baseUrl in the tsconfig or jsconfig

[bpasero]

@mjbvz was there a change?

[mjbvz]

I clarified the setting documentation. It now explicitly says that auto uses the shortest path type and that you need to set a baseUrl for non-relative paths

[bpasero]

@mjbvz I do not see much more clarification though, I see this still:

[mjbvz]

The part about "auto" infer the shortest path type. The entry for non-relative also now mentions baseUrl and ts/jsconfig

[insidewhy]

This isn't working for me at all. Even though app/util/blah is the "shortest" it chooses ../../../util/blah for me unless I change the option from auto to non-relative. app is shorter than ../../... VS Code is using typescript 2.9.1.