How To Set Format Of Multiline Comment in IntelliJ

Question

By default IntelliJ is formatting multiline comment as

/*
A multi line comment
Line 2
*/

I would like it to format the multiline comment as

   /*
    * A multi line comment
    * Line 2
    *
    */

to match the code style standard used by other developers who use Eclipse on my team.

I've combed through the Settings Java Code but cannot find a way to force IntelliJ to automatically put an * at the beginning of each line in the multiline comment.

Thank you for the help.

Answer 1

We can achieve the same with /** + Enter.

Source

Answer 2

It seems that comments in the copyright section are commented by default the way you would like it.

But you can do the same with your comments by using live templates. Just follow this steps...

Define your Live Template

• File > Settings (Ctrl + Alt + S on Windows)
• Editor > Live Templates
• Add a new one or edit an existing one, like 'sbc' (block comment)
• Edit the Teplate Text like in the following picture

Use the Live Template

Now if you type sbc in your code

You can expand it to

And with Enter, you can add more commenting lines