Re: error: Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth

[Michael Slass]

Marcus Gustafsson <gaspode@lysator.liu.se> writes:

>"cvs user" <emacs_user@hotmail.com> writes:
>> Hello,
>>
>> in the past week or two, I have been getting this error from the cvs
>> gnu emacs:
>>
>> error: Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth
>>
>> cl-map-keymap: Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth
>>
>>
>> --debug-init does not provide useful info, and make maintainer-clean
>> etc does not help.  this seems to be not due to some specific part of
>> my .emacs file, but due to a combination of things that seem difficult
>> to identify.
>>
>> anyone seen such a problem?
>
>Yeah, I get the same error every time I try to reply to a mail while
>being offline. I have no clue to what it can be though.
>
>/Marcus


The sleaziest and easiest work-around for this is to set
max-lisp-eval-depth to a higher number near the top of your .emacs

I set mine to 300, and I haven't seen this error since.

-- 
Mike Slass