diff --git a/src/app/editor.coffee b/src/app/editor.coffee
index f8f47ba2f..f1f37df8f 100644
--- a/src/app/editor.coffee
+++ b/src/app/editor.coffee
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ class Editor extends View
     autoIndent: true
     autoIndentOnPaste: false
     nonWordCharacters: "./\\()\"':,.;<>~!@#$%^&*|+=[]{}`~?-"
+    preferredLineLength: 80
 
   @nextEditorId: 1