Move Code

Move code the smart way!

Move code the smart way! 👈🙃👉

Instead of cutting and pasting lines, and breaking code, let's move things semantically: First we put our caret on the code intended to be moved. Then, we use Code | Move Statement Up/Down to rearrange it. Despite the refactoring name, this also works for methods, properties and other members. Placing the caret at the closing brace of a block statement, like if or while, even lets us expand and shrink the scope.

We can also reorder parameters of signatures. Again, we just place our caret on a particular parameter, and use Code | Move Element Left/Right to specify its new position. Note that if our method already has usages, we might consider using the Change Signature refactoring instead, which would update the argument order.

Alright, now move move move! 👇😌👆

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