This tutorial explains about multiple ways to do following things

  • Changing line width
  • Limit character display on each line

IntelliJ IDEA change line width by limit characters to 100

  • using editorconfig file EditorConfig is configuration file that contains universal rules applied to all editors.

    • Create .editorconfig in root of the application
    • Add the max_line_length property to .editorconfig file and save it.
  max_line_length  = 80

max_line_length=80 adds line wrap after 80 characters and possible values are integer or off.

This works in all popular IDE such as IntelliJ IDEA,VSCode, Atom, Eclipse and Sublime.