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Is there a way to remove imports in JShell?


I'm discovering JShell and I discovered the imports added in by default:

jshell> /imports
|    import java.io.*
|    import java.math.*
|    import java.net.*
|    import java.nio.file.*
|    import java.util.*
|    import java.util.concurrent.*
|    import java.util.function.*
|    import java.util.prefs.*
|    import java.util.regex.*
|    import java.util.stream.*

After doing that I added my own import using the following command:

import java.lang.Math

Is there a way to remove the latter import without killing the active session/restarting?

I've tried to issue the /edit command, remove the import, click accept and click exit, but that didn't do the trick.

As stated in the comments, /reset removes the import, but it also removes anything else previously input in the session. Is there a specific way to ONLY remove the import statement?


Solution

  • After some searching, I managed to find a solution. It's a combination of /list (to know which line to remove) and /drop.

    /drop [name[ name...]|id[ id...]]
    

    Drops a snippet, making it inactive. Provide either the name or the ID of an import, class, method, or variable. For more than one snippet, separate the names and IDs with a space. Use the /list command to see the IDs of code snippets.

    jshell> import java.lang.Math
    
    jshell> /list
    
       1 : import java.lang.Math;
    
    jshell> /drop 1
    
    jshell> /imports
    |    import java.io.*
    |    import java.math.*
    |    import java.net.*
    |    import java.nio.file.*
    |    import java.util.*
    |    import java.util.concurrent.*
    |    import java.util.function.*
    |    import java.util.prefs.*
    |    import java.util.regex.*
    |    import java.util.stream.*