IntelliJ / Rust, foo.rs -> foo/mod.rs shortcut?

#1

I keep on running into the following inconvenience and wonder if there is a better solution.

Current solution:

1. fire up terminal from current file
2. mkdir foo
3. mv foo.rs foo/mod.rs

Is there an IntelliJ shortcut / a way to script this in IntelliJ to do "foo.rs => foo/mod.rs" ?

#2

This isn't really an answer to your question, but did you know you can have a

src
|_main.rs
|_foo.rs
|_foo
  |_foo_submodule.rs

instead of

src
|_main.rs
|_foo
  |_mod.rs
  |_foo_submodule.rs

point being you don't need to rename and move the file to have submodules for it anyway if you make modules with this structure.

As for your original question, I saw this in Intellij Rust usage

RefactoringsWIP

Expand module : invoke this refactoring inside foo.rs file to get foo/mod.rs . Also available as a quick fix for unresolved module declaration.

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#3

I don't know if there's a keyboard shortcut, but you can right click on the foo.rs and there should be a "Promote to directory module" entry or something like that in the "Refactor" submenu.

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