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

Building on NonGrate's answer:

Go to settings, search for TODO settings, and replace the existing todo entry "\btodo\b.*" with:

(\btodo\b.*)|(\/\*(\*(?!\/)|[^*])*\btodo\b(\*(?!\/)|[^*])*\*\/)

Result:

You must use */ to close the highlight.

It uses 2 patterns:

1. (\btodo\b.) captures any line with the word todo
2. (/\*(\*(?!/)|[^*])*\btodo\b(\*(?!/)|[^*]*\*/) captures multi line comments starting with /* and ending with */

Any other combinations may not work.

Note: You have to replace the existing regex to avoid having multiple instances of the same todo item appearing in the todo list.