Soft filling (wrap) in Auctex

Question

Auctex has a nice feature that fills the paragraph (LaTeX-fill-paragraph) based on emacs' fill-column. This as you know extends to environments as well (C-c C-q C-e). This works fine for me when I write alone, however, when I work with colleagues who doesn't use emacs necessary, it becomes problematic.

My coauthors often complains that my latex code dictates my column width to them. Other editors has a soft-wrap functionality that looks like a newline in the editor but there is no real newline.

Is there a way, that I could have Auctex to fill paragraph but doesn't insert actual new lines?

Jae · Answer

Adding the following to the .emacs file worked for me:
(require 'mode-local)
(defvar-mode-local tex-mode fill-column 1000000 "")

It basically increases the fill-column size to a large value (only in the tex-mode).
A minimal example using use-package:
(use-package tex
  :ensure auctex
  :if (display-graphic-p)
  :defer t
  :mode
  (".tex'" . tex-mode)
  :config
  ;; Avoids column fill when formatting
  (require 'mode-local)
  (defvar-mode-local tex-mode fill-column 1000000 ""))

Soft filling (wrap) in Auctex

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