From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: 911@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: Ian Miller <ian@soroban.fastmail.fm>
Subject: bug#911: 23.0.60; custom-set-faces causes "New Frame" to fail (max-specpdl-size)
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:30:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D692CC.8020103@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080919195533.GA27756@baso.home>
Ian Miller has patiently continued to debug this and we finally came to
the conclusion that the following sequence of events leads to the error.
Ian uses
(custom-set-faces
'(default ((t (... :background "DarkSlateGray" ...)))))
When creating a new frame `frame-set-background-mode' gets called which
eventually calls `face-spec-recalc'. The latter has this loop
(dolist (spec theme-faces)
(face-spec-set-2 face frame (cadr spec))))
which calls `face-spec-set-2' two times for the default face background,
one time for #ffffff and one time for DarkSlateGray. `face-spec-set-2'
calls `set-face-attribute', which calls
`internal-set-lisp-face-attribute' which calls Fmodify_frame_parameters
which calls `frame-set-background-mode' again. Now
(>= (apply '+ (color-values "DarkSlateGrey"))
(* (apply '+ (color-values "white")) .6))
evaluates to nil while
(>= (apply '+ (color-values "#ffffff"))
(* (apply '+ (color-values "white")) .6))
evaluates to t. This means that `bg-mode' never equals `old-bg-mode'
but continuously alternates between 'light and 'dark, so
`frame-set-background-mode' will call `face-spec-recalc' thus sending
Emacs into a nasty loop.
Note that the looping behavior is due to the second call in the dolist
(that for DarkSlateGrey). The first call (for #ffffff) terminates.
I'm not sure how to fix this because that looping has no specific entry
point. In fact, Ian told me
> Incidently, whilst testing I have found that the same bug does indeed
> manifest itself elsewhere. Normally I have the toolbar disabled in my
> .emacs, but after stripping everything out of .emacs for testing
> purposes, I noticed that I get the following errors whenever I hover
> over an icon in the toolbar:
>
> Error while displaying tooltip: (error Variable binding depth exceeds
> max-specpdl-size)
> Read a directory, to operate on its files
> Error while displaying tooltip: (error Variable binding depth exceeds
> max-specpdl-size)
> Read an existing file into an Emacs buffer
which seems due to the fact that x_create_tip_frame calls
`modify-frame-parameters' ...
Anyone out there with good ideas for a fix?
martin
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-07 14:23 bug#911: 23.0.60; custom-set-faces causes "New Frame" to fail (max-specpdl-size) martin rudalics
2008-09-07 16:56 ` Ian Miller
2008-09-07 18:47 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-07 23:42 ` Ian Miller
2008-09-08 13:29 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-14 13:50 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-16 12:11 ` Ian Miller
2008-09-16 12:50 ` martin rudalics
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2008-09-16 14:54 ` martin rudalics
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2008-09-17 10:41 ` Ian Miller
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2008-09-21 18:30 ` martin rudalics [this message]
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2008-09-07 11:36 Ian Miller
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