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Asked: 2026-06-08T22:48:07+00:00

(Edited) NOTE: this question is NOT about how Eclipse’s code formatter wrap long String

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(Edited) NOTE: this question is NOT about how Eclipse’s code formatter wrap long String literals. It is the behavior of MANUALLY breaking/wrapping String literal

The default behavior when I break a String literal by hitting enter inside the literal, is Eclipse will append " + at the place I hit enter, and start the rest of my line in next line, with " prefixed.

                            // v ENTER HERE
String longString = "abcdefghij|klmno";

String longString = "abcdefghij" +
        "klmno";

However, normal coding style practice suggests line wrap before operator. Is there any way that I can tell Eclipse to break my String like this?

String longString = "abcdefhij"
        + "klmno";
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  1. Editorial Team

    Finally I found this is one missing feature of Eclipse.

    Currently this issue is tracked under Eclipse’s issue tracker :
    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=48433

    Update: I am now using Eclipse 4.3, and found that this feature is now available. Position of + operator when you are manually breaking a long String will now follows your code formatter setting.

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