80-characters right margin line in Sublime Text 3

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You can have 80-characters   right margin line in Netbeans  Text Mate and probably many  many more other IDEs  Is it possible to have it in Sublime Text 3 as well  Any option  plugin etc

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For this to work  your font also needs to be set to monospace  If you think about it  lines can t otherwise line up perfectly perfectly   This answer is detailed at sublime text forum  http   www sublimetext com forum viewtopic php f 3 amp p 42052 This answer has links for choosing an appropriate font for your OS  and gives an answer to an edge case of fonts not lining up   Another website that lists great monospaced free fonts for programmers  http   hivelogic com articles top-10-programming-fonts  On stackoverflow  see   Michael Ruth s answer here  How to make ruler always be shown in Sublime text 2   MattDMo s answer here  What is the default font of Sublime Text   I have rulers set at the following  30 50  git commit message titles should be limited to 50 characters  72  git commit message details should be limited to 72 characters  80  Windows Command Console Window maxes out at 80 character width     Other viewing environments that benefit from shorter lines   github  there is no word wrap when viewing a file online   So  I try to keep  js  md and other files at 70-80 characters  Windows Console  80 characters

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Yes  it is possible both in Sublime Text 2 and 3  which you should really upgrade to if you haven t already   Select View   Ruler   80  there are several other options there as well   If you like to actually wrap your text at 80 columns  select View   Word Wrap Column   80  Make sure that View   Word Wrap is selected  To make your selections permanent  the default for all opened files or views   open Preferences   Settings   User and use any of the following rules           set vertical rulers in specified columns         Use  quot rulers quot    80  for just one ruler        default value is         quot rulers quot    80  100  120           turn on word wrap for source and text        default value is  quot auto quot   which means off for source and on for text      quot word wrap quot   true          set word wrapping at this column        default value is 0  meaning wrapping occurs at window width      quot wrap width quot   80    These settings can also be used in a  sublime-project file to set defaults on a per-project basis  or in a syntax-specific  sublime-settings file if you only want them to apply to files written in a certain language  Python sublime-settings vs  JavaScript sublime-settings  for example   Access these settings files by opening a file with the desired syntax  then selecting Preferences   Settings   More   Syntax Specific   User  As always  if you have multiple entries in your settings file  separate them with commas   except for after the last one  The entire content should be enclosed in curly braces      Basically  make sure it s valid JSON  If you d like a key combo to automatically set the ruler at 80 for a particular view file  or you are interested in learning how to set the value without using the mouse  please see my answer here  Finally  as mentioned in another answer  you really should be using a monospace font in order for your code to line up correctly  Other types of fonts have variable-width letters  which means one 80-character line may not appear to be the same length as another 80-character line with different content  and your indentations will look all messed up  Sublime has monospace fonts set by default  but you can of course choose any one you want  Personally  I really like Liberation Mono  It has glyphs to support many different languages and Unicode characters  looks good at a variety of different sizes  and  most importantly for a programming font  clearly differentiates between 0 and O  digit zero and capital letter oh  and 1 and l  digit one and lowercase letter ell   which not all monospace fonts do  unfortunately  Version 2 0 and later of the font are licensed under the open-source SIL Open Font License 1 1  here is the FAQ

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