From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: customize Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 06:01:24 -0600 (MDT) Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200207111201.g6BC1OM16938@aztec.santafe.edu> References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026388896 26721 127.0.0.1 (11 Jul 2002 12:01:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:01:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Scdc-0006wl-00 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:01:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17SceL-0003Ze-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:02:21 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17ScdS-0003SL-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:01:26 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6BC1PB16619; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 06:01:25 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g6BC1OM16938; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 06:01:24 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: eddy@opera.no In-Reply-To: (message from Edward Welbourne on Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:51:09 +0200) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2620 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2620 I used customize. When I was done, I clicked Finished on the pages. Then I did C-x C-b and deleted them from the *Buffer List* window. Now I can't save files. I get told: max-lisp-eval-depth exceeded. Can you tell us precisely how to reproduce this? With that information, we could fix the problem. If you do M-x toggle-debug-on-error and then try to save a file, do you get a backtrace? If you email us that backtrace, we might figure out from it what is wrong. Furthermore, I can't turn *off* having the wretched customize system interfere with my configuration: Alas, that is such a general statement that I can't deduce any specific practical conclusions from it. I don't know whether this is a bug or pilot error; the words could fit either one. Please read the Bugs section in the Emacs manual, which provides guidelines on how to write a bug report to give us the necessary information so we can fix the bug. Instead of saying "I can't do X", please say "I typed precisely ABC, hoping it would do X, but it did precisely XYZ instead." With that sort of information, we can tell what it means. turning off the configuration option for it merely leaves a (custom-set-faces '(trailing-whitespace ((t nil)))) in my .emacs rather than removing the entire reference; Is this a problem? Does anything bad happen as a result of this? I'm clearly going to have to exit from emacs (now that customize has managed to leave me unable to do stupidly necessary things like save files) and vi my .emacs. This seems to assume that if you restart Emacs the new session will have some sort of problems, but you did not report having actually done so and observed such problems. Is this an observation or a guess? What exactly happens when you start a new Emacs? If it fails again, could you please describe the failure, and send us your .emacs file so we can try to investigate it?