Auto import option to make imports relative only within current directory

Suggestion

🔍 Search Terms

import relative

✅ Viability Checklist

My suggestion meets these guidelines:

• This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
• This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
• This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
• This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, new syntax sugar for JS, etc.)
• This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.

⭐ Suggestion

An option added to the importModuleSpecifier preference to make imports absolute if and only if their relative path would begin with ../.

📃 Motivating Example

At my workplace, our least favourite relative imports are the ones that venture out of the current directory (i.e. they begin with any number of ../). But there are times where we want relative imports within the current directory (i.e. beginning with ./). I don't see any existing options that support this exact style of import, including project-relative.

In general, the motivation for not using relative imports beginning with ../ is that it makes moving code files around more difficult.

💻 Use Cases

shortest and relative are obviously not correct since they have no qualms about this issue.
non-relative is my current workaround, which only adds absolute imports.
project-relative I tried, but based on what I discovered and my understanding of the description in the tooltip, my guess is that it only adds absolute imports for files that are located outside of the workspace folder.

Start by locating the language-service handling for the importModuleSpecifier preference and tracing how it chooses relative versus absolute module specifiers. Check existing tests for auto-import preferences, then add coverage showing that paths beginning with ../ use absolute imports while imports within the current directory remain relative.