My favourite eclipse settings

Preferences>PyDev>Editor>Code Style>Code Formatter – Tick “Right trim lines?”

Preferences>PyDev>Editor>Typing – untick After ‘(‘ indent to its level (indents by
tabs if unchecked)

Number of indentation levels to add: 1

Switch pylint off so pydev code analysis can do its job:

Preferences>PyDev>Editor>PyLint Untick “Use pylint?”.

Preferences>General>Editors>Text Editors>Annotations>Occurences (PyDev) set to #6BF459 so bright enough to see when very small but can read text on top.

Preferences>General>Editors>Text Editors>

Displayed tab width: 4

Tick “Insert spaces for tabs”
Tick “Show print margin” and set to 80.

Tick “Show line numbers”.