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I have following Java Formatter Option configuration under Comments section: "/** and */ on separate lines" option is selected in in the Format settings. "Never join lines setting " is not selected. For the following code snippet I do not get the JavaDoc lines formatted for the "someMember" variable. public class TestFormatter { /** This is one line, hard to read comment. */ private String someMember = null; /** * This is what is expected with separate lines option. */ private String someOtherMember = null; } I am using currently Eclipse Photon therefore I entered 4.8 as version but it seems behavior exists also older releases. There is already an old question on Stack overflow about the same issue: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26393422/eclipse-javadoc-formatting-how-to-allow-disallow-single-line-javadoc-comments
The intent of this setting is only to avoid multiline comments like this: /* line one * line two */ So I guess it could be worded more clearly and/or a new sub-setting could be added to also affect comments that fit in a single line.
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