Yes, you can have a gigantic fill-column
. Or yes, you can turn off auto-fill-mode
(use (auto-fill-mode -1)
or set auto-fill-function
to nil
).
"That sort of line wrapping" is useful if you want text that has lines of limited length. (Duh.)
See also visual-line-mode
, which can give you a similar visual effect but without the insertion of hard newlines.