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How to make Intellij generate one-line comment for field instead of multi-lines?

When I Alt+Enter on private static final String FOO = "foo"; and select “Add Javadoc”, Intellij(version 2020.2) generate a multi-lines style comment like this.

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How do I make it generate one-line style comment instead?

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Answer

There is no way to modify the formatting of the “Add Javadoc” intention AFAIK. You can just type the comment instead, since it’s just a few characters. Or you can create a Live Template (Preferences | Editor | Live Templates), to reduce the number of characters that is needed to type further. The Live Template could look something like this, for example:

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