Auto-format of code containing long URLs in comments results in "Link specified as plain text" warning

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I've got some Javadoc comments that contain long URLs wrapped as links, but when I reformat the code using Ctrl+Alt+L, it breaks the links across multiple lines so that they can't be identified as links and I get the "Link specified as plain text" warning.

e.g.

/**
* <a href="https://something-with-a-long-url.com/this+is+an+extremely+long+link+that+will+get+broken+when+the+code+is+auto+formatted">a long link</a>
*/

is changed by auto-formatting, to:

/**
 * <a
 * href="https://something-with-a-long-url.com/this+is+an+extremely+long+link+that+will+get+broken+when+the+code+is+auto+formatted">a
 * long link</a>
*/

and that's not recognised as a hyperlinked URL, so I get the warning.

Is there something I can do to fix that, or is that worth a bug report?

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Hi Richard,

Thanks for taking the time to report this. Looks like it is a bug after all.

It was reported here: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-290417

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