How to add and enable the "Convert named imports to namespace imports" refactor action?

[mceachen]

Bug Report

🕗 Version & Regression Information

When trying to patch up a codebase to deal with unbound named imports, I found that the "Convert named imports to namespace imports" refactor action was missing in vscode.

• This is not a crash
• This is a new refactor action, afaik, so I don't know if/when it changed between versions
• This is the behavior in every version I tried. I couldn't find any references to why this refactor would be disabled.
• I tried this with TS 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5.0-dev.20210923 on stable and insider releases of vscode on Ubuntu 20.04.3

With 4.3:

With typescript@next:

💻 Code

Tested with https://github.com/mceachen/ts44-event-typeerror

🙁 Actual behavior

The refactor action doesn't exist.

🙂 Expected behavior

I want this: #46027 (comment)

[andrewbranch]

This consistently works for me on macOS. @orta @elibarzilay or @sandersn would any of you be able to attempt a repro on Linux?

[mceachen]

@andrewbranch thanks for the update. I tried on my macOS box, with vscode 1.60.2 (Universal) and got this (using the little test repo linked above, just to minimize moving parts):

[mceachen]

Ah: I didn't remember I'd used vscode on that box before, and there were extensions hiding in ~/.vscode. I deleted the prior configs, and behold, the refactoring shows up!

But... it turns out that this refactoring doesn't help solve #46027 at all: it just switches between

import { addListener } from "process";

and

import * as process from "process";

both of which fail with the same error due to invoking the unbound method.

Should I open yet another issue to solve that?

[andrewbranch]

😞 Yes please, thank you @mceachen