autoImportSpecifierExcludeRegexes needs a window refresh for changes to take effect

[188599]

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autoImportSpecifierExcludeRegexes

🕗 Version & Regression Information

• This changed between versions ______ and _______
• This changed in commit or PR _______
• This is the behavior in every version I tried, and I reviewed the FAQ for entries about _________
• I was unable to test this on prior versions because _______

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💻 Code

.vscode/settings.json

{
  "<language>.preferences.autoImportSpecifierExcludeRegexes": ["<regex>"]
}

🙁 Actual behavior

Changes only take effect after a window reload.

🙂 Expected behavior

Changes to take effect immediately, same way that autoImportFileExcludePatterns does.

Additional information about the issue

I mentioned this earlier on another issue (#35395 (comment)) and I initially thought that the update I got fixed the problem, turns out it was just because that forced the window to refresh, as I later encountered the same problem once I tried adding new regexes to it.

[RyanCavanaugh]

@mjbvz checked manually and I don't see anything in the server log where the updated setting gets sent over

[mjbvz]

@188599 What VS Code version are you using? Support for this setting was only added in the last month

[188599]

@188599 What VS Code version are you using? Support for this setting was only added in the last month

1.94-insider

[mjbvz]

@RyanCavanaugh Can you also tru this out on in insiders. I see the field getting sent over in the configure request for the file:

[188599]

This is only tangentially related to the issue, but as I was digging through the code trying to figure out why autoImportFileExcludePatterns was seemingly not working as intended, with the code provided on a new Ionic project, they bundle it in with the following:

.vscode/settings.json

{
  "typescript.preferences.autoImportFileExcludePatterns": ["@ionic/angular/commons", "@ionic/angular"]
}

And instead of excluding those 2 import paths, it was removing all import paths under @ionic/angular, where the required imports are all from @ionic/angular/standalone.

It seemed to me that due to recent changes to autoImportFileExcludePatterns the old behavior was changed and this why autoImportSpecifierExcludeRegexes came about to make up for it.

What I was left wondering is, is the current behavior from autoImportFileExcludePatterns mentioned above intended? It feels like it shouldn't be either.

[kafumanto]

{
"typescript.preferences.autoImportFileExcludePatterns": ["@ionic/angular/commons", "@ionic/angular"]
}

Same issues here (including the one from the OP). As a workaround for Ionic, I'm using:

{
    "typescript.preferences.autoImportSpecifierExcludeRegexes": ["^@ionic\/angular\/common$", "^@ionic\/angular$", "\/proxies$"]
}

[tusharsnx]

autoImportSpecifierExcludeRegexes needs a window refresh for changes to take effect

Same here. Though restarting the TS server also works.

[jedwards1211]

Is it just me or does the setting not work at all anymore, even if I restart VSCode?

[craig-jennings]

@jedwards1211 I'm seeing the same. Looks like this setting is broken.