Run goimports on save?

[Mike Perham]

I love running gofmt on every save but it complains about unused imports all the time. Can you run goimports also to clean up unused imports?

[Fatih Arslan]

This is not anymore default, but you can easily enable it by adding this to your .vimrc:

let g:go_fmt_command = "goimports"

I might change this again in the future because a lot of people is asking for this :) However goimports is slow on large code bases which is against my intention which is providing a fast and simple go editing experience in Go.

[Mike Perham]

The problem with your suggestion is that my code is no longer formatted. I don't want to run one or the other, I want to run them both.

[Fatih Arslan]

No, goimports is doing formatting too! Did you try it? Because goimports is basically gofmt + automatic importing.

[Mike Perham]

I did try it. It sorted my imports differently that gofmt so I thought maybe it wasn't formatting. I'll try it for the next day and see if I like it better than gofmt. Specifically it seems to put external packages below stdlib packages.

With goimports:

import (
    "errors"
    "strconv"
    "strings"

    "github.com/mperham/inspeqtor/util"
)

With gofmt:

import (
    "errors"
    "github.com/mperham/inspeqtor/util"
    "strconv"
    "strings"
)

[Fatih Arslan]

Yeah, this is the only difference. This come up a lot in golang-nuts, here is one of the recent discussion:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/Ir0-hKNkEkQ

[Mike Perham]

That's ridiculously stupid.

[Arthur Santana]

I like this behavior. Please keep it :).