apropos -> max-lisp-eval-depth exceeded

[David Reitter]

I'm posting the slightly edited bug report I got from a user. This is  
a CVS compile from yesterday (Sunday), with a number of packages  
included as precompile. (I'm listing part of the site-load.el file  
below, showing all included packages that are part of GNU Emacs.)

I can't reproduce this, even with setting max-lisp-eval-depth low.  
Might be recursion.

On a related note, I noticed that I had trouble compiling emacs - the  
process bailed out with the same "max-lisp-eval-depth exceeded" error  
message when byte-compiling mouse.el (reproducibly). I solved the  
problem by manually byte-compiling mouse.el. I don't know if this  
points to a similar underlying problem.

Please write to Arthur directly and cc me in case there are any  
questions / comments.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Arthur Ogus <address@hidden>
> Date: 29 August 2005 19:40:52 BDT
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Aquamacs-bugs] Apropos help
>
>
> C-h a (help apropos) and then "font"
> yields the error that lisp nesting level has been exceeded.
> This happens on two machines so far.
>
>
>
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0)
>  of 2005-08-28 on lucy - Aquamacs Distribution 0.9.5
> Distributor `Apple Computers', version 10.4.2
> configured using `configure '--without-x' '--prefix=/usr/local''
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: nil
>   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Text
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   msb-mode: t
>   smart-frame-positioning-mode: t
>   recentf-mode: t
>   osx-key-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   show-paren-mode: t
>   delete-selection-mode: t
>   pc-selection-mode: t
>   cua-mode: t
>   encoded-kbd-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
>   utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
>   column-number-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
>
> Recent input:
> C-h i <switch-frame> C-h a f o n t <return> <help-echo>
> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>
>
> Recent messages:
> Loading site-load-core (source)...done
> Loading msb...done
> Loading /Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/ec-emacs/site- 
> lisp/site-start (source)...done
> Loading /Applications/Aquamacs Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site- 
> lisp/site-start (source)...done
> ... done.
> Loading /Applications/TeXniscope.app/Contents/Resources/txs- 
> search.el (source)...done
> For a introduction to Aquamacs Emacs, type Apple-?.
> Loading info...done
> Composing main Info directory...done
> Loading apropos...done
> ad-Orig-documentation: Lisp nesting exceeds `max-lisp-eval-depth'



from site-load.el:


(load "disp-table")
(load "toolbar/tool-bar")
(load "image")
(load "button")
(load "view")
(load "help-mode")
(load "help-fns")

(load "emacs-lisp/debug")
(load "emacs-lisp/bytecomp")
(load "emacs-lisp/byte-opt")
(load "emacs-lisp/advice")
(load "custom")
;(load "emacs-lisp/cl")
;(load "emacs-lisp/cl-seq")
(load "international/encoded-kb")
(load "wid-edit.el")
; (load "emacs-lisp/easymenu") ;; needs to be loaded at runtime...  
causes strange behavior otherwise
; (load "recentf")
(let ((load-path
    (append load-path
        (list (expand-file-name "emulation" (car load-path))))))
   (load "emulation/cua-base")
   (load "emulation/pc-select")
   )
(load "delsel")
(load "paren")
(load "calendar/time-date")
(load "timezone")
(load "calendar/parse-time")

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