Imports order and preferences

[maoueh]

In certain circumstances where a Go package can be imported from different fully qualified name like assert or require, I notice different behavior between auto-import and Ctrl+Space suggestion.

The specific case I face the most often is that I write a unit test, I add require or assert statement like assert.Equal(...) then when I save, the "wrong" import is added (I say wrong just because it's not the one I wanted).

If I instead write assert.Equal(...) then place my cursor right after assert (between t and .) then I do Ctrl+Space to see suggestions, then the first listed is the one I would like to actually use. It could be a coincidence and they are simply alphabetically sorted.

So I was wondering what is the way auto-import decides which import to pick to resolve a particular package? Is there anyway currently to "tweak" this behavior a bit maybe provide a list of my preferred resolution?