prefix line with number WAS: Are Windows-Emacs' scrollbars broken?

[John Kliff Jochens <jk-listas@bol.com.br>]

On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 07:07, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> > It doesn't scroll all the way to the bottom, stopping a couple of
> > lines before the end of the buffer.
> > And the scrolling text jitters up & down while scrolling.
> 
> This is because Emacs sets the scroll-bar thumb size based on the
> number of characters, not lines.  One reason is that Emacs doesn't
> count lines in the buffer unless specifically required to do so by
> some command.

Now that you mentioned it, how can I have each line of the buffer
prefixed with its number? All I managed to do was to show on the line
with the file name (and etc), as well as the column, but I'd preffer to
have the line shown at the begginig of line.

Anyone knows how to do that (GNU Emacs 21.2.1)?
-- 
John Kliff Jochens <jk-listas@bol.com.br>