Eclipse formatter: can it ignore annotations?

Question

Sometimes I want annotations on fields be in a single line and sometimes in a line each. Is there any way to make Eclipse formatter just ignore these annotations and leave the lines breaks just as I did?

Answer 1

Not quite sure what you mean, but you break up lines for field this way:

String text = 
"cake" +
"more cake" +
"alot more cake";

This is also an option: You can go to Properties -> Java code style -> Formatter -> Edit: Then there should be some tags to on/off. Also include this line in your code:

/* @formatter:on */

Answer 2

I think so. In Preferences go to Java - Code Style - Wrapper. Then edit your active profile, click "Line Wrapping" and then "Annotations - Element-value pairs". Then set the Line wrapping policy to "Do not wrap".