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Autofix for no-unused-vars "caughtErrors: all"

See original GitHub issue

The version of ESLint you are using. 5.16

The problem you want to solve.

We currently have to manually fix caughtErrors: all errors even when we give "ecmaVersion": 2019.

Your take on the correct solution to problem.

ESLint could automatically fix this by removing catch bindings.

Are you willing to submit a pull request to implement this change?

Yes if I learn how to implement an autofix.

This is basically #10434 but based on the existing rule.

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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not-an-aardvarkcommented, Apr 22, 2019

We generally only autofix a rule when we’re sure of what the user intended to do. With no-unused-vars, sometimes an unused variable indicates that the user has a bug in their code because they meant to use the variable. So if we “fix” the problem by deleting the variable, we might end up just concealing the bug because the problem will no longer be brought to the user’s attention.

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arcaniscommented, May 21, 2019

Could that be enabled via an explicit option of the rule?

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