Does a --showConfig on a config with paths like these show the input ${configDir} or the resolved disk paths?

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/58042/files#diff-dfa255ce269b3c80a416b7c133db82a20292076b8c53370637b1aeaff7b8e7f3R110 shows resolved path and i think its useful to show it like that.

...Do we need to allow escaping $ so you can actually use a $ in a path, rather than as one of these templates? Like if I (somehow - the character is forbidden on NTFS) had an actual directory named ${configDir} - how do you escape from the pattern back to a literal interpretation?

Not sure. i think we should keep this simple as otherwise we need to ensure all the paths are normalized to contain escaped $ we can choose other template pattern as well its a TODO but we shouldnt have to do escaping

@sheetalkamat It's a good feature of ${configDir}, but it's not perfect. Using ${configDir}, we can make paths more simple, avoid trapping into black hole of relative path, such as "@root/*" : ["../../../../../a/b/c/*"]. Unfortunately, we still trap into this black hole when we config extends. I suggest that we should bring a template variable or a method, let user set it a path, and user can apply it into tsconfig.json or tell typescript figure it out. For example:

/a/b/tsconfig.variables.json:

{
  "root": "./"
}

now, ${root} refers to /a/b/, and it can be shared in all tsconfig.json under /a/b/, such as /a/b/**/tsconfig.json;

/a/b/c/tsconfig.json:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "paths": {
        "@root/*": ["${root}/*"]
    }
  }
}