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

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
*/