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Support passing `--srcdir` to goimports

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go, vim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start with the gofmt formatter usage described in doc/codefmt.txt and trace how gofmt_executable is invoked. Check the goimports path-inference behavior and the --srcdir option; done means the argument is passed only for goimports, while gofmt continues to run without it.

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Description

enhancement

When using goimports via our gofmt formatter as suggested in the docs, the goimports path-based inference doesn't work because we don't tell goimports about the path. It does support a --srcdir argument we could pass.

We'd have to make it conditional and detect basename(gofmt_executable) == 'goimports' or something like that because gofmt doesn't support any --srcdir arg.

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