Semicolons (at end of line) in KDoc aren't allowed on lines containing references, but should be

[erikhuizinga]

Ktlint doesn't accept the following:

/**
 * [x];
 */

Ktlint doesn't allow semicolons at the end of a KDoc line. However, they are perfectly fine, as they are a natural language token, not a Kotlin token.

It seems this only happens when the KDoc contains references to code, e.g..: [x].
Note that just formatted code with a semicolon, e.g. `x`;, is accepted by ktlint.

The suggestion is to accept EOL semicolons in KDoc lines that contain Kotlin code.

[NightlyNexus]

I couldn't reproduce this error.
Can you make a test for NoSemicolonsRuleTest or link to a minimum reproducible example?

[erikhuizinga]

You're right, ktlint runs without problems on my original example. I'm editing it right away! Save it to file.kt and run ktlint file.kt, which results in /path/to/file.kt:2:7: Unnecessary semicolon.