Can you lengthen a clip with transitions intact?

Quite often I will have an isolated video clip (such as a title on an upper track) on the timeline with a transition on each end (usually a cross-dissolve), and then for one reason or another I want to lengthen or shorten the clip by just dragging its edges right or left. But before I can do that, I always have to delete the transition first, and thus whatever adjustments I've made to the transition are lost.
Is there any way to leave a transition intact while dragging the edges of a clip right or left? Or does the transition always have to be deleted first, and then replaced afterward?
Tom B.

The roll tool! Yes! I didn't know it was good for that. Thanks David & Tom. I just did some experimenting, and found that the roll tool when selected from the tool palette works great for this, and I also tried putting the cursor right at the end of the transition to see if it automatically changes into a roll tool. It does, but only if the timeline is sufficiently enlarged so that the transition is a big icon. If the Timeline view is small, so that the clips and transitions are seen tiny, I can't get the automatic method to work. Since I often have the timeline sized small so as to see more of the project, I guess in my case I'll just have to choose the roll tool off the tools palette rather than have it automatically appear. No big deal.
But now I know how to do it. The roll tool. Thanks!
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