From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 30675@debbugs.gnu.org, Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Subject: bug#30675: Ask the user what to do when shr-make-table: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 21:51:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efl342br.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po4n19q0.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Fri, 02 Mar 2018 10:40:07 +0800")
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積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> Instead of warning the user when this happens
>
> KY> (defun shr-descend (dom)
> KY> ...
> KY> (if (> shr-depth (/ max-specpdl-size 15))
> KY> (setq shr-warning "Too deeply nested to render properly; consider increasing `max-specpdl-size'")
> KY> else ...))
>
> it should ask the user "Should we try 15 levels deeper? y-n
>
> and if that is still not enough,
>
> it should ask the user "Should we try 25 levels even more deeper? y-n
> ...
>
> Why?
>
> Because the user is facing a probably one-time bad html message.
>
> He doesn't want to change his .emacs to always let them pass.
>
> He also wants the choice:
> no I don't want to go deeper for this promotional coupon.
> yes my grandmom sent me this so I want to see it.
On the other hand, if you say go deeper too far Emacs will crash. It's
a bit hard to predict how far is too far, so I'm not sure if this prompt
is such a great idea. See Bug#16999 "calc crashes when computation
limit is increased" for an example of such a prompt.
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16999
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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 [this message]
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
2018-04-13 12:40 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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