From: Pieter Wenk <pwenk@urbanet.ch>
Subject: Re: lisp nesting exceeds 'max-eval-depth
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 08:03:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000117080327.B450@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v1tln5pi3uu.fsf@maru.rem.cs.cmu.edu>
On lun, 17 jan 2000, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:
>Pieter Wenk <pwenk@urbanet.ch> writes:
>
>> It happens, that I am getting:
>>
>> lisp nesting exceeds 'max-eval-depth
>>
>> How can I correct this. Kai suggested I am adding in
>> ~/.emacs (setq max-specpdl-size 9999)
>>
>> what I have done...
>>
>> Unfortunately the problem is not solved.
>>
>> Any ideas what I have to do ?
>
>`max-eval-depth' exists to protect against infinite recursion. What
>this error message means in this case is that emacs's call stack has
>reached a depth of 9999. This is an unlikely depth for normal usage
>of gnus. (I run with a `max-eval-depth' of 1500 with no problems.)
>What are you trying to do when the problem occurs? Try setting
>`debug-on-error' to t and see if the resulting backtrace looks like a
>case of infinite recursion. If you think this is still a Gnus related
>problem, post the repeating bit of the backtrace here.
In fact, I do nothing special...just reading news.
Shall set debug on error and will let you know backtrace.
Regards
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2000-01-16 19:44 Pieter Wenk
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