Re: soft wrapping and line numbers

[Javier Oviedo]

I have recently inquired about the line-number issue as well. Most everyone
directed me to setnu.el, but it caused some funny behavior with my
configuration.

I was then told about wb-line-number.el. I like this very much. You can find
it at:

http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html

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Javier
"Eric Carlsen" <eric_carlsen@[NO-SPAM].hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b8mjep$8b2$1@acs2.byu.edu...
> 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.
>