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> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 12:01:51 -0400
> 
> This would be nice in combination with some kind of dynamic
> line-wrapping which simulates joining lines.  Then comments would
> appear as if they've been filled to the screen width, no matter what
> the actual fill-column and screen width is.  Which would be nice on
> small displays.
> 
> By dynamic word-wrapping I mean something which would display:
> 
> foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
> foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
> 
> as
> 
> foo foo foo foo foo
> foo foo foo foo foo
> foo foo foo foo
> 
> on a 20-character width display.  Instead of the default display
> behavior:
> 
> foo foo foo foo foo
> foo foo
> foo foo foo foo foo
> foo foo

Dynamic wrapping is incompatible with hard newlines.  Don't use
newlines except between paragraphs, and word-wrap we have in Emacs
will do what you want.