From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: weber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: bizzare text scrolling Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:23:50 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1186284230.841511.38680@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> References: <13b9rv4o0ilp867@news.supernews.com> <13ba6sjfk1iuu7d@news.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186285275 25875 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2007 03:41:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 03:41:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 05 05:41:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IHWzP-0002gg-Rg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:41:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IHWzJ-0000CH-4F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:41:05 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 189.6.212.239 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1186284231 30099 127.0.0.1 (5 Aug 2007 03:23:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 03:23:51 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <13ba6sjfk1iuu7d@news.supernews.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-feisty),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com; posting-host=189.6.212.239; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150755 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46327 Archived-At: On Aug 4, 9:38 pm, Tim Johnson 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