Re: Allow value of PRINT_CIRCLE to be modified from Elisp?

[Toby Cubitt]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 01:44:23PM +0200, Toby Cubitt wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:03:14AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > >> Maybe we should simply ignore PRINT_CIRCLE when `print-circle' is
> > >> non-nil. 
> > >
> > > That would definitely solve all my problems if it can be done.
> > 
> > Done in the trunk,
> 
> Thanks! I've been testing persistent undo-tree history since this change
> was applied, and it seems to be working fine now.

It seems this fix didn't make it into the emacs-24 branch. Any reason?

Here's the commit:

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revno: 107975
committer: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Fri 2012-04-20 09:02:20 -0400
message:
  * src/print.c (print_preprocess): Only check print_depth if print-circle
  is nil.
  (print_object): Check for cycles even when print-circle is nil and
  print-gensym is t, but only check print_depth if print-circle is nil.
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Toby
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