Description
The code action to add imports is great and I use it all the time, but my interactions with it can sometimes be a little repetitive.
For example, if I use the type Int32 HLS suggests a litany of potential imports, but every time I use this name I want to import Data.Int from base. There are a host of these "defaults" and it would be great to inform HLS of these to avoid cluttering the code actions with options I'm never going to choose.
The defaults could be specified either as:
- A name and the corresponding import statement, in the above example:
('Int32, "import Data.Int") - Just a module name
Data.Intwith the meaning of, if this exists at all in the suggestions, don't suggest anything else
On a similar topic, it would be nice to specify "canonical" imports for types, for example I'm sure that despite Int32 being reexported from Foreign, Foreign.Safe, GHC.Int and UnliftIO.Foreign, nobody ever imports it from those modules (specifically, i.e. not with an open import). Does HLS have information at code-action generation time on the provenance of the symbols in the imports it's suggesting? In the above example this would present the import options from Data.Int and the Vulkan imports (assuming the user hasn't specified a canonical import for Vulkan.Core10.CommandBufferBuilding.ClearColorValue.Int32, in which case that canonical module would be returned).
I'm not sure that having a built in list of these default would be sensible, especially when alternative preludes get involved, but it would be nice to have some configuration that users could opt into easily to avoid people duplicating large amounts of the specifications in their configs.
Other motivating examples:
- Anything from
Data.Traversable,Data.Foldable,Data.Maybe. Basically any import from base which doesn't gobble up common names. - I quite often like:
import Data.Text (Text); import Data.Text qualified as T(would have to present the options forData.Text.Lazytoo for when the user wants that)- Similarly for
import Data.Vector(Vector); import Data.Vector qualified as V
- Similarly for