From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Fischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: error entering dired Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:17:05 +0100 Organization: Arcor Message-ID: References: <87odccynw0.fsf@trollope.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198791648 6069 80.91.229.12 (27 Dec 2007 21:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:40:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 27 22:41:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J80TI-0001BV-Bd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:40:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J80Sx-0004aI-7o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:40:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!storethat.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Shakespeare: "Now is the winter of our discontent" -- King Richard III, I.1 User-Agent: Emacs Gnus Cancel-Lock: sha1:ALAv+dw8uTxN3F+4txpyGw9k4Lg= Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Dec 2007 22:15:31 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: f88ba7e6.newsspool1.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=; 08aO5E^AbnPXlQ; h]GTMdic==]BZ:afn4Fo<]lROoRa4nDHegD_]Re@D8Tj2KMXda_f6GZK7HKL`^L\kE2hAmmkLmLJCl7[K; ` Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154926 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50350 Archived-At: >>>>> Michael Powe writes: > Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:48:47 -0500 > > Hello, > > After opening emacs and trying to enter dired mode, I get this message > and dired buffer will not open: > > font-lock-eval-keywords: Lisp nesting exceeds `max-lisp-eval-depth' > > other functionality, such as gnus and using JDE to create/edit java > source, seems to be working fine. > > This was all working on my old slackware system, I just changed to > ubuntu 7.10 today, and copied over my .emacs &c to the new system. The > old system was emacs 21 and the new one is emacs 22. > > Any thoughts on what could have changed between the two versions that > would cause this behavior? > > Thanks. > > mp > > -- > cat: /home/powem/.signature: No such file or directory > Hi, my thoughts: - what is in your .emacs ? - what is in your *Message* buffer when you start emacs ? - what happens if you start emacs with the option --debug-init ? Martin -- parozusa at web dot de