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Feature Request: generate imports when copying code between files #66236

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Feature Request: generate imports when copying code between files#66236
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@Rhobal
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opened on Jan 8, 2019

In eclipse Java editing, copying a code snippet from a class to another also automatically copies the imports required by the copied code.
Would be nice to have this in VS Code for typescript as well. Currently when I copy some code, I have to manually resolve the imports afterwards.

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  1. vscodebot commented on Jan 8, 2019

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  2. Matt Bierner (mjbvz)
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    on Jan 8, 2019
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    on Jan 14, 2019

  4. mjbvz commented on May 22, 2019

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    Matt Bierner (mjbvz)
    on May 22, 2019
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    Needs api proposed in #30066

  5. johnculviner commented on May 22, 2019

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    John Culviner (johnculviner)
    on May 22, 2019

    This feature is amazing in Webstorm / IntelliJ. It's one of the biggest things I miss coming from there.

    I was actually doing some research into how pasteboard works in macOS at least (and the metadata that can live in it. formatting etc.). It's complicated. I think it might be possible to keep that metadata in vscode though and make the implementation easier to be cross OS usable:

    • When you do a copy, the string goes into the "ANY_OS" clipboard.
    • VSCode simultaenteouly stores the AST metadata (or however it works, need to check that part out) about that code in memory in the vscode process along with the associated string.
    • If you paste that string in vscode, vscode looks to see if it has any metadata for that string stored in it's process. If it does it uses the stored metadata to do any applicable imports.

    I might see if I can pull this off as I love the direction of vscode but I sorely need this to reach the productivity I've enjoyed in IntelliJ...

  6. Matt Bierner (mjbvz)
    added this to the Backlog milestone on Oct 21, 2019

  7. olegKusov commented on Aug 16, 2021

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  8. IgnusG commented on Jan 8, 2022

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    JJ (IgnusG)
    on Jan 8, 2022

    I've been wondering about this every now and then and today finally decided to search for a way to do this on the web. This would really be a cool thing to have. I was actually thinking of simply triggering the import all missing modules code action after paste if that's somehow possible. Otherwise it's just a few more keystrokes but still ^^'

  9. Kogs commented on Apr 7, 2022

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  10. dongzhuoyao commented on Jul 24, 2022

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  11. mjbvz commented on Aug 4, 2022

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    Matt Bierner (mjbvz)
    on Aug 4, 2022
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    Opened microsoft/TypeScript#50187 to track this upstream

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    closed this as completedon Aug 4, 2022
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