Intellij 14.1 Distraction free mode has a huge gap on the left side of the screen?

UPDATE: currently, aka 27 Dec 2015, there's an issue opened on their tracker regarding this feature/bug

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The same blog you're indicating, states the following

In addition, the text is center-aligned!

This got me thinking, so I played a bit with the right margin features and, as you can see in the pictures below, the 2 seem related:

1. Right margin at 80 I have it at 120 and I can't recall the default value, but this looks like yours.

2. Right margin at 160

In conclusion, the larger the number, the smaller the right margin, and in addition so to speak, the smaller the left margin.

To get rid of the left gap in WebStorm increase the hard wrap value:

Settings > Editor > Code Style > your language > Wrapping and Braces > Hard Wrap at ...

Thank you! Works with IntelliJ 2019.1.1 as well. CTRL+ALT+S -> code style -> increase hard wraps to > 200