Auto-import sbt projects

[fdietze]

Hi,

is there a way to always auto-import the project, instead of getting prompted after changing the build.sbt?

When editing quickly, sometimes the prompt gets in the way.

Might be related to #328

Thank you!

[ckipp01]

Hey @fdietze! Good question, we actually by default don't do this. The full import is actually pretty expensive, so try to not hammer the user with requests if they are making a bunch of changes one right after the other. Typically in a senario like this I just say "Not now" which will silent it for a while, and then manually trigger the build import when I'm done.

[fdietze]

I tried all the options and nothing was working well for me so far... I don't want to see the prompt at all, but still use metals. If it's doing something expensive in the background when I'm working on build.sbt, that's fine for me.

[cornerman]

I would also like to have an auto-import functionality. With the current setup, the prompt interrupts my work in the editor and then I anyhow always press yes.

[ckipp01]

I transfered this over to the main metals repo since this isn't really specific to coc-metals and all of the extensions will behave this way since that's how Metals works.

I tried all the options and nothing was working well for me so far... I don't want to see the prompt at all,

So choosing the "Don't show again" option the first time it appears should work like this. Once you choose this it will no longer show you the prompt.

[dos65]

We can't make auto-import as it is a slow process and there is no way to make it work fast enough to provide auto-import per every save in build file.

I'm wondering if can disable this notification?
I never use it and always perform import by a command.

[tgodzik]

I'm wondering if can disable this notification?
I never use it and always perform import by a command.

This might be useful for beginners, so I think Don't show again is a good enough option for more experienced users.

As for auto-import, we could actually have it for sbt BSP server. I think that should work alright if we check before for any diagnostics.