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> From: Jim Kalb <kalb@aya.yale.edu>
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:55:05 GMT
> 
> I'd like to display several columns of text using emacs, so that (for
> example) if the screen is 120 characters wide, the fill column is 60,
> and I'm using a 2-column display, the text at any point in the file
> would display starting in the first column, reach the bottom of the
> screen, and then continue in the second column. Possible? If so, how?

Is two-column.el what you are looking for?