​I see Eli, you are absolutelly right. I did not know that this was the default. It makes sense to behave as you described by default.

I'd like to configure the default to what I described though, maybe through some elisp hackage​. Will that be possible. It's not a unsolveable problem if this is not possible. I can always turn off the truncation. 

About the Overlays, now I see what you mean. It would make sense that the relative line numbers would give me only possible places to jump to with C-n and C-p. 

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

This contradicts the only set of requirements I saw posted about this
(by several people): show line numbers that are consistent with
vertical movement commands like C-n and C-p. Which means wrapped
lines should be counted, as Emacs moves visually, at least by default.