John Shahid writes: > Leo Liu writes: > >> On 2018-06-12 08:21 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> Ugh, macOS... This means no xbacktrace and no other GDB >>> wizardry... >> >> Indeed. >> >>> Well, I think the most important thing is to produce a Lisp >>> backtrace from the error. >> >> Turns out 26.1 cannot load a version of python.el (by dave love) that I >> have in my site-lisp. >> >> 1. emacs -Q -l python.el >> 2. M-x python-mode >> >> ,----[ error ] >> | Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size >> | Error in post-command-hook (global-eldoc-mode-check-buffers): (error "Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size") >> `---- >> >> Gnus was just loading python-mode to fontify some code in an article. > > double posting since I sent the email only to Leo. > > VVVV original email VVVV > > That seems to be a result of converting `global-eldoc-mode' to use > `define-globalized-minor-mode' in 2349f. The recursive call seems to be > a result of the following sequence of calls: > > 1. python-mode is enabled which adds an eldoc-mode-hook > 2. eldoc-mode is turned on in the buffer triggering python's > eldoc-mode-hook > 3. python-mode hook will start an inferior process which in turn trigger > ,MODE-enable-in-buffers > 4. ,MODE-enable-in-buffers will go over the list again trying to enable > eldoc-mode > > The problem is in step 4. The eldoc-global-mode buffer list isn't reset > in step 2. Step 4 will try to enabe the mode for the same buffer and > start a sequence of calls at 2. I was able to fix this problem by > setting the buffer-list to nil inside ,MODE-enable-in-buffers. I > attached a patch below. Added the bug number to the changelog entry and attached a new patch.