Is it possible to use multiline todo's in IntelliJ IDEA?

Question

If yes, how ?

If not, is there a workaround to get similar functionality ?

EDIT:

What I mean is something like this :

// TODO line1
         


        

Answer 1

In my settings I'm using such a regex for multiline TODO:

\/(\/|\*)[ ]*\btodo\b(.|\n)*(\*\/|)

The only problem is that it doesn't highlight last */ symbols of multiline comment. If anyone can solve that, it would be great!

Answer 2

No, not for now.

This feature has been discussed, but not yet implemented.

EDIT/UPDATE:

It is implemented in 2018.3 version.

Answer 3

Do you mean this? using-todo-lists

/**
 * todo multi-line
 *  
 */

Answer 4

This is supported since 2018.3.

Multiline TODO comments

IntelliJ IDEA 2018.3 now supports multiline TODO comments, now the first and all subsequent TODO comment lines are highlighted in the editor and listed in the TODO Tool Window. Simply add an indent starting from the second line of your multiline TODO comment, and the IDE will differentiate it from an ordinary comment.

Answer 5

This regex works for me:

(?:(?:todo|TODO)(?:\[[A-Z,a-z]+\-\d+\])?\s(\s*\b.*\b)*)|(?:\/\*\s*(?:todo|TODO)(?:\[[A-Z,a-z]+\-\d+\])?\s(?:(?!\*\/)[\s\S])*\*\/)

It basically looks for the following:

• A todo or TODO keyword optionally suffixed by a ticket/issue id in brackets and any amount of characters after a single white space character.
• A java multi line comment starting with /* followed by any amount of white space and then the conditions outlined in the single line todo description above. It terminates once it finds */ in any of the following lines.

Single-line examples:

todo some very important stuff
TODO[SAOY-1376] An urgent bug fix described in the SAOY-1376
// todo some very important stuff
// TODO[SAOY-1376] An urgent bug fix described in the SAOY-1376

Multi-line examples:

/* todo assignee or something
    a very important message
    another thing
*/

/* TODO[SAO-13]
 * a very important message
 * another thing
*/

Answer 6

You can use FIXME and TODO using tabs as follows

//FIXME: first line
//<tab> second line
//<tab> third line

For more information please refer to the documentation