Re: error entering dired

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Michael Powe <michael+gnus@trollope.org> writes:

Hi Michael,

> ============ backtrace ==================
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Lisp nesting exceeds `max-lisp-eval-depth'")
>   font-lock-eval-keywords(t)
>   [ ... this entry repeats 285 times ... ]
>   font-lock-eval-keywords(t)
>   font-lock-eval-keywords(t)
>   font-lock-eval-keywords(t)
>   font-lock-eval-keywords(dired-font-lock-keywords)
>   font-lock-set-defaults()
>   font-lock-mode-internal(t)
>   font-lock-default-function(t)
>   font-lock-mode()
>   turn-on-font-lock()
>   turn-on-font-lock-if-enabled()
>   global-font-lock-mode-enable-in-buffers()
>   run-hooks(after-change-major-mode-hook)
>   run-mode-hooks(dired-mode-hook)
>   dired-mode("~/" "-al")
>   dired-internal-noselect("~/" nil)
>   dired-noselect("~/" nil)
>   dired("~/" nil)
>   call-interactively(dired)
> =========== end backtrace ==================

Please check if the problem persists with "emacs -Q" and "emacs -q".  If
not, then the problem is in your ~/.emacs.  In that case please poste
all lines of it which might have something to do with font-locking.

Bye,
Tassilo
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