title: How to do multi-line comments in NetBeans without auto DocBlock formatting?
body: <p>Sometimes in my code I like to comment out a block of code for temporary use/reference etc eg:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/* 
  
  blah
  
  */ 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it's a minor annoyance that if I then want to go and insert a line inside that block, when I click enter, it will automatically put a * on the next line as though I were doing a DocBlock. This happens on every enter key:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/* 
  
  blah&lt;enter pressed here&gt;
  *
  
  */ 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now I would have thought this 'auto-formatting' should only take place if the opening comment is using the format /** (two stars).  Multi line comments were around a long time before DocBlocks, so I'm not sure why it forces these "old school" standard straight forward /* */ comments to have fancy unwanted extra DocBlock *'s!</p>
  
  <p>So is there a way to:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>a) Ideally - only have that formatting take place if the opening tag is /**</li>
  <li>b) Or if it can't differentiate between /* and /**, is there a way to disable the auto-comment-formatting entirely?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Cheers</p>