soft wrapping and line numbers

[Eric Carlsen]

I recently started using emacs and I was wondering if there is a way to 
do some things. For one, is soft word wrapping implemented yet? By this 
I mean that there are no newlines inserted in text but it wraps lines on 
the screen without breaking up characters. Vim does it with lbr (I'm not 
trying to flame, just give background) and I think it is commonly done 
in the windows world.

The other feature I would like is to have the line number written beside 
each line. Is that possible? Thanks for any help. I've tried to read the 
manuals and look online but I haven't found any solutions yet.