Shortcut to uncomment javadoc in IntelliJ IDEA

Question

I have some comments in this format:

/**
 * public class ListNode {
 *     int val;
 *     ListNode next;
 *     ListNode(int x) { val = x; }
 * }
 */

How to uncomment it?

I have tried shift + ctrl + /, it leads to:

*
 * public class ListNode {
 *     int val;
 *     ListNode next;
 *     ListNode(int x) { val = x; }
 * }

you can visit this [document](https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/intellij-idea/docs/IntelliJIDEA_ReferenceCard.pdf) to find your information. — Dang Nguyen, Oct 30 '18 at 06:30
next time use a block comment instead of converting code to javadoc — Kartik, Oct 30 '18 at 06:32
it seems currently, IntelliJ has no shortcut for uncommenting javadoc — TranNgocKhoa, Oct 30 '18 at 06:34
I copied this piece code from other sites... Seems no shortcut could uncomment it directly. — xingbin, Oct 30 '18 at 06:39

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 30 '18 at 06:49

2

I don't think there is a way to convert javadoc to normal text because this is not a common use-case.

You can replace-all "* " with nothing.

Or use column-edit mode in Notepad++ or Sublime Text if you have occurrences of "* " that you don't want to remove.

edited Oct 30 '18 at 06:49

xingbin

27,410
9
53
103

answered Oct 30 '18 at 06:46

Kartik

7,677
4
28
50

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 31 '18 at 14:03

It was advised to use other tools to edit in column mode, but this is not necessary as Intellij IDEA supports it as well. Using Alt+Shift+Insert shortcut you can enable this mode and remove unnecessary comments. More details about column selection is here.

For the future I would advise to use line comment (//) as you can easily select several lines and use Ctrl+/ to comment them. The same way you could uncomment those as well.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

0

All the shortcuts help are here

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Community

1
1

answered Oct 30 '18 at 06:42

Prashant Jeet Singh

172
1
14

Shortcut to uncomment javadoc in IntelliJ IDEA

3 Answers3