Making Eclipse's Java code formatter ignore block comments

Question

Is there a way to make Eclipse\'s built-in Java code formatter ignore comments? Whenever I run it, it turns this:

    /*
     * PSEUDOCODE
     * Read in us         


        

Answer 1

If you want to supress formatting in eclipse, you can always wrap content that is intended to NOT TO BE FORMATED into

UNFORMATTED CONTENT

tag. Javadoc formatter will detect that tag, and leave everything between that tags unformatted.

Pros:

• Rest of Javadoc is still formatted
• Javadoc's html output will be "unformatted" as well because of pre tags

Cons:

• Not seeing one