Scala Plugin 1.7 for IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP brings you a number of new features and improvements, among which we'd like to highlight these two:
Inline refactoring for type aliases
Invoked just as any other inline refactoring, by placing the caret on an alias you want to inline and pressing Ctrl+Alt+N.
For now this refactoring is only available for non-parameterized types and for aliases that are used inside of the same class.
Kind projector support
Kind Projector is a Scala compiler plugin that provides an easy way to create type lambdas. Scala 1.7 plugin includes inspection that suggests
Inline Refactoring for Type Aliases and Kind Projector Support
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