[Solved]-How to display characters per line in Eclipse-eclipse

in eclipse, on the bottom bar of the ide, there is a number like: 1:1, 19:20, 50:100… this means that “line:charactersinline”.

to complement not exceed too much the number of characters in line is a good practice. i’m the old days programming with very little monitors on resolution with 800×600, the number of 80 characters was a good one. but now with widescreen monitors a good number of characters in accord with many programmers is 120 characters per line.

complementing the answer of @david kaczynski:

i found it. go to windows -> preferences. select text editors in the dialog box, and check the “show print margin” option. this will display a marker at a given column number that can allow the author to avoid exceeding a specific line length.

after you activated show print margin that shows the count of the lines, you can configure to:

print margin column: 120