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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 30675@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#30675: Ask the user what to do when shr-make-table: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:02:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muy49zef.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7u7w26l.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:34:10 +0200")

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> Because there's a possibility of infinite recursion.  So the question
>> actually boils down to "how much do you trust the code which caused
>> this?"  And I'm guessing the answer will tend to be NO with each
>> additional prompt from the same command.
>
> That's true.  But if there's a chance that Emacs may crash by the user
> holding down `y' a bit, then that's no fun, either...

I've now done this on master, so we'll see how this works out in
practice.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-15 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <877eqwbqvc.fsf@jidanni.org>
     [not found] ` <b4mfu5kk0iz.fsf@jpl.org>
2018-03-02  2:40   ` bug#30675: Ask the user what to do when shr-make-table: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2018-03-02  2:51     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-12 23:49     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-13  0:06       ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2018-04-13  0:27         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-13  9:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-13 11:48             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-13 12:15               ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-13 12:32                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-13 12:43               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-13 15:34                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-15 17:02                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2018-04-13 12:40             ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson

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