Typescript: Import aliases have poor quick-info descriptions

[DanielRosenwasser]

[mhegazy]

what would you want see more here?

[DanielRosenwasser]

I'd like to see every entity that y encompasses. For instance, look at the quick info I get on A here:

[mhegazy]

except that an alias has a different name. so it is confusing to hover over y and get interface A. we used to do that, then added the new import kind.

[DanielRosenwasser]

What about something like

import y
interface y
namespace y

[mhegazy]

but there is no interface y, it is really import y (aliasing) interface A / namespace A

[mhegazy]

any concrete proposals here?

[techird]

In file type.ts, I define an interface Person

/**
 * The type repencent a person
 */
export interface Person {
    name: string,
    age: number
}

In file index.ts where I import Person,

import { Person } from './types';

var techrid: Person; // hover point

when I hover on the hover point (the Person word), I would expect to see below.

import Person

interface Person
The type repencent a person

If I specific an alias like

import { Person as MyPerson } from './types';

I would expect to see below.

import Person as MyPerson

interface Person
The type repencent a person

In simple, just grap the quick info from the _origin_ export point appending to the import quick info.

[mhegazy]

We would be open to a PR here. A possible solution is for Aliases to augment their quick info with that of their target.

[techird]

@mhegazy nice!

[mhegazy]

thanks @jwbay !