From: weber <hugows@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bizzare text scrolling
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:23:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186284230.841511.38680@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13ba6sjfk1iuu7d@news.supernews.com>
On Aug 4, 9:38 pm, Tim Johnson <t...@johnsons-web.com> wrote:
> Hadron wrote:
>
> <....>
>
>
>
> > Weird. I saw this for the first time today myself after Ubuntu crashed
> > and I had to reinstall.\
>
> I had installed the emacs-extra and emacs-goodies-el packages. I removed
> them and the symptoms went away.
>
> BTW: I would add more to descriptions of the symptoms:
> Letters were "dropping" from lines to lines beneath them. This behavior
> was much like one of the very earliest viruses, if memory serves me.
>
> Go figure!
> Tim
It's a kind of screensaver for emacs, nothing to be afraid of ;)
I can find it under Tools -> Games -> Zone out on my Emacs 22.
There are a few different ways to "zone out", some times the letters
scroll, some times the screen shakes, etc.
You can read more searching for the source zone.el.
Cheers,
weber
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-05 3:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-04 21:31 bizzare text scrolling Tim Johnson
2007-08-04 23:36 ` Hadron
2007-08-05 0:38 ` Tim Johnson
2007-08-05 3:23 ` weber [this message]
2007-08-05 15:10 ` Tim Johnson
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