Path Autocomplete for Visual Studio Code

Provides path completion for visual studio code.

Features

• it supports relative paths (starting with ./)
• it supports absolute path to the workspace (starting with /)
• it supports absolute path to the file system (starts with: C:)
• it supports paths relative to the user folder (starts with ~)
• it supports partial paths (./tmp/fol will suggest ./tmp/folder1 if it exists)
• it supports items exclusions via the path-autocomplete.excludedItems option
• it supports npm packages (starting with a-z and not relative to disk)
• it supports automatic suggestion after selecting a folder
• it supports custom mappings via the path-autocomplete.pathMappings option
• it supports conditional path mappings that apply to certain sub-folders only
• it supports custom transformations to the inserted text via the path-autocomplete.transformations
• it supports Windows paths with the path-autocomplete.useBackslash
• it supports VS Code for Web (including on Windows)
• it supports language specific configurations

Installation

You can install it from the marketplace. ext install path-autocomplete

Options

• path-autocomplete.extensionOnImport - boolean If true it will append the extension as well when inserting the file name on import or require statements.

• path-autocomplete.includeExtension - boolean If true it will append the extension as well when inserting the file name.

• path-autocomplete.excludedItems This option allows you to exclude certain files from the suggestions.

  "path-autocomplete.excludedItems": {
      "**/*.js": { "when": "**/*.ts" }, // ignore js files if i'm inside a ts file
      "**/*.map": { "when": "**" }, // always ignore *.map files
      "**/{.git,node_modules}": { "when": "**" }, // always ignore .git and node_modules folders
      "**": { "when": "**", "isDir": true }, // always ignore `folder` suggestions
      "**/*.ts": { "when": "**", "context": "import.*" }, // ignore .ts file suggestions in all files when the current line matches the regex from the `context`
  }
  

  minimatch is used to check if the files match the pattern.

• path-autocomplete.pathMappings Useful for defining aliases for absolute or relative paths.

  "path-autocomplete.pathMappings": {
      "/test": "${folder}/src/Actions/test", // alias for /test
      "/": "${folder}/src", // the absolute root folder is now /src,
      "$root": "${folder}/src", // the relative root folder is now /src
      // or multiple folders for one mapping
      "$root": ["${folder}/p1/src", "${folder}/p2/src"] // the root is now relative to both p1/src and p2/src
  }
  

  In monorepos the following setup could be used:

  "path-autocomplete.pathMappings": {
    "$root": {
      "conditions": [
        {
          "when": "**/packages/math/**",
          "value": "${folder}/packages/math"
        },
        {
          "when": "**/packages/ui/**",
          "value": "${folder}/packages/ui"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  

  Supported variables:

  Name	Description
  ${home}	User home folder
  ${folder}	The root folder of the current file
  ${workspace}	The root folder of the current workspace
  ${fileDirname}	The directory of the current file
  ${relativeFileDirname}	The current opened file's dirname relative to workspaceFolder

• path-autocomplete.pathSeparators - string Lists the separators used for extracting the inserted path when used outside strings. The default value is: \t({[

• path-autocomplete.transformations List of custom transformation applied to the inserted text. Example: replace _ with an empty string when selecting a SCSS partial file.

  "path-autocomplete.transformations": [
    {
        "type": "replace",
        "parameters": ["^_", ""],
        "when": {
            "fileName": "\\.scss$"
        }
    },
  
    // replace spaces with %20
    {
        "type": "replace",
        "parameters": [ " ", "%20", "g" ],
        "when": {
            "path": ".*routes"
        }
    },
  
    // replace %20 with spaces when reading the already inserted path
    {
        "type": "inputReplace",
        "parameters": [ "%20", " ", "g" ],
        "when": {
            "path": ".*routes"
      }
    },
  
    // useful if extensionOnImport is true
    {
          "type": "replace",
          "parameters": [
              "\\.\\w+$",
              ""
          ],
          "when": {
              "fileName": "\\.(ts|tsx|js|jsx)$"
          }
      }
  ],
  

  Supported transformation:

  • replace - Performs a string replace on the selected item text.
    Parameters:

    • regex - a regex pattern
    • replaceString - the replacement string
    • modifiers - modifiers passed to the RegExp constructor

  • inputReplace - Performs a string replace on the input path.
    Parameters:

    • regex - a regex pattern
    • replaceString - the replacement string
    • modifiers - modifiers passed to the RegExp constructor

  The fileName and path can be used for filtering the items/instances where the transformation should be applied.

  For the replace transformation considering we selected /home/mihai/a.txt:

  • fileName - regex applied to the basename of the selected suggestion a.txt
  • path - regex applied to the the full path of the selected suggestion /home/mihai/a.txt

  For the inputReplace transformation considering that what we typed so far is /home/mihai:

  • path - regex applied to the path inserted so far /home/mihai

• path-autocomplete.triggerOutsideStrings boolean - if true it will trigger the autocomplete outside of quotes

• path-autocomplete.enableFolderTrailingSlash boolean - if true it will add a slash after the insertion of a folder path that will trigger the autocompletion.

• path-autocomplete.disableUpOneFolder boolean - disables the up one folder (..) element from the completion list.

• path-autocomplete.useBackslash boolean - if true it will use \\ when iserting the paths.

• path-autocomplete.useSingleBackslash boolean - If enabled it will insert a single backslash (\) even inside quoted strings.

• path-autocomplete.ignoredFilesPattern - string - Glob patterns for disabling the path completion in the specified file types. Example: "*/.{css,scss}"

• path-autocomplete.ignoredPrefixes array - list of ignored prefixes to disable suggestions on certain preceeding words/characters. Example:

      "path-autocomplete.ignoredPrefixes": [
          "//" // type double slash and no suggesstions will be displayed
      ]
  

Language specific configurations

All settings can be overwritten by language specific configurations.

    "path-autocomplete.extensionOnImport": false,
    "[typescript]": {
        "path-autocomplete.extensionOnImport": false,
    },

Configure VSCode to recognize path aliases

VSCode doesn't automatically recognize path aliases so you cannot alt+click to open files. To fix this you need to create jsconfig.json or tsconfig.json to the root of your project and define your alises. An example configuration:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "esnext", // define to your liking
    "baseUrl": "./",
    "paths": {
      "test/*": ["src/actions/test"],
      "assets/*": ["src/assets"]
    }
  },
  "exclude": ["node_modules"] // Optional
}

Tips

• if you want to use this in markdown or simple text files you need to enable path-autocomplete.triggerOutsideStrings

• ./ for relative paths

  If ./ doesn't work properly, add this to keybindings.json: { "key": ".", "command": "" }. Refer to https://github.com/ChristianKohler/PathIntellisense/issues/9

• When I use aliases I can't jump to imported file on Ctrl + Click

  This is controlled by the compiler options in jsconfig.json. You can create the JSON file in your project root and add paths for your aliases. jsconfig.json Reference https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/jsconfig#_using-webpack-aliases

• if you have issues with duplicate suggestions please use the path-autocomplete.ignoredFilesPattern option to disable the path autocomplete in certain file types

• if you need more fine grained control for handing duplicate items you can use the path-autocomplete.excludedItems option as follows:

// disable all suggestions in HTML files, when the current line contains the href or src attributes
"path-autocomplete.excludedItems": {
        "**": {
            "when": "**/*.html",
            "context": "(src|href)=.*"
        }
},

// for js and typescript you can disable the vscode suggestions using the following options
"javascript.suggest.paths": false,
"typescript.suggest.paths": false

Release notes

The release notes are available in the CHANGELOG.md file.

Author

Mihai Ionut Vilcu

• github/mihai-vlc
• twitter/mihai_vlc

Credits

This extension is based on path-intellisense