From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: bizzare text scrolling Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 07:10:39 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <13bbq016fumrl87@news.supernews.com> References: <13b9rv4o0ilp867@news.supernews.com> <13ba6sjfk1iuu7d@news.supernews.com> <1186284230.841511.38680@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186328484 26592 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2007 15:41:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 15:41:24 +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 17:41:22 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 1IHiEL-0000LJ-8V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:41:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IHiDr-0002g9-Oo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:40:51 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!tethys.csu.net!nntp.csufresno.edu!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-08!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 20 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150761 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:46331 Archived-At: weber wrote: > On Aug 4, 9:38 pm, Tim Johnson wrote: <..> >> >> I had installed the emacs-extra and emacs-goodies-el packages. I removed >> them and the symptoms went away. >> > 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. Hey, that is good to hear. No emacsen gremlins butchering my precious code! I was interested in those packages, so I will re-install them. Thanks a lot. Tim