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Re: & quot; Apparently circular structure being printed& quot;


From: Seweryn
Subject: Re: & quot; Apparently circular structure being printed& quot;
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 20:11:25 +0000 (UTC)
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Seweryn <sewkokot <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Unfortunately, Emacs has an undocumented, hard-coded limit on the depth
> of a Lisp list structure, beyond which it considers the structure to be
> circular and refuses to print it, throwing the "Apparently circular
> structure" error. This limit only applies to printing such structures;
> Emacs will happily work with deeply nested structures in all other
> circumstances. But predictive-mode uses the Lisp printing functions to
> write the dictionaries to file, hence the error when saving.

Question to Emacs developers:

Are there any chances to create a user variable for this reason or to increase 
PRINT_CIRCLE value in print.c file?

Thanks,
Seweryn




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