Description David McLeod 2005-04-04 20:17:30 EDT

I am using Eclipse 3.0.2

I have the following declaration in an Exception class:

static private final String DEFAULT_MESSAGE = "An unknown problem occurred 
during synchronization.";

The line without formatting is 101 characters long.  I cannot find a setting 
that enables Eclipse to break this statement in a logical way.  Certainly, the 
default values don't work.  Even if I manualy break the statement at the "=" 
sign, subsequent calls to the format revert the line to the original 101 
character length.

Note: For really long strings that are declared this way (i.e. as static 
finals), it would be really nice if I could enable a "string breaking" 
property that would allow the Eclipse formatter to rewrite the whole line as:

static private final String DEFAULT_MESSAGE = "An unknown problem occurred" 
+ " during synchronization.";

This would then allow the formatter to find more logical break points for the 
expression as a whole.