Re: bizzare text scrolling

[weber]

On Aug 4, 9:38 pm, Tim Johnson <t...@johnsons-web.com> wrote:
> Hadron wrote:
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> > Weird. I saw this for the first time today myself after Ubuntu crashed
> > and I had to reinstall.\
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> I had installed the emacs-extra and emacs-goodies-el packages. I removed
> them and the symptoms went away.
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> 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.
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> 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