Auto importing should choose the nearest one where same symbol name is exported from multiple files

Auto importing should choose the nearest one where same symbol name is exported from multiple files

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auto import
same symbol name

✅ 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.

💻 Use Cases

When .vscode/settings.json "typescript.preferences.importModuleSpecifier": "shortest",
The following auto importing behavior is very strange:

// src/app1/config.ts
export const LogLevel=1

// src/app1/main.ts
import {LogLevel} from "src/app2/config"
console.log(LogLevel)

// src/app2/config.ts
export const LogLevel=2

// src/app2/main.ts
import {LogLevel} from "src/app1/config"
console.log(LogLevel)

I think it should auto imports the nearest one, but it auto imports the other one.

When .vscode/settings.json "typescript.preferences.importModuleSpecifier": "relative",
The auto importing behavior is OK:

// src/app1/config.ts
export const LogLevel=1

// src/app1/main.ts
import {LogLevel} from "./config"
console.log(LogLevel)

// src/app2/config.ts
export const LogLevel=2

// src/app2/main.ts
import {LogLevel} from "./config"
console.log(LogLevel)

Riproduci gli esempi usando .vscode/settings.json con importModuleSpecifier impostato su shortest e relative. Confronta le scelte di importazione automatica per i due file config.ts di app1/app2, quindi analizza il comportamento di importazione automatica di TypeScript che assegna un ordine ai candidati; il lavoro è completato quando la modalità shortest seleziona il simbolo esportato più vicino in entrambi i casi.