Surround with method/function call in IDEA?

Question

Is there any way to surround selection with an arbitrary method call?

Ex: let say, you have return dx; and you want to quickly transform it into return Math.abs(dx);

I'm aware of templates but then you have to hard code your surrounding(Math.abs in this case) and I'm looking for a generic solution, not bounded to any predefined method.

UPD 22.01.2019: As @de-li pointed out, the .arg postfix template is added. At the moment confirmed for Java. Feel free to vote for the Kotlin support: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-29398

UPD: .arg template is available for Kotlin since 1.3.40-dev-568

Answer 1

You could create a live template looking something like this:

$END$($SELECTION$) 

and then just select the text you want to wrap, hit Ctrl+Alt+T to show the suround with popup and select your template as illustrated in the image below:

That way you have generic template and you don't have to hardcode method name into it.

Answer 2

Move to the end of the code and type '.arg', then press enter, IDE will add a pair of brackets to wrap the value and move the cursor to the beginning, then you can the method name you want.