From: Seweryn <sewkokot@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: & quot; Apparently circular structure being printed& quot;
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 20:11:25 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20101109T210312-475@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20101109T083926-875@post.gmane.org
Seweryn <sewkokot <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Unfortunately, Emacs has an undocumented, hard-coded limit on the depth
> of a Lisp list structure, beyond which it considers the structure to be
> circular and refuses to print it, throwing the "Apparently circular
> structure" error. This limit only applies to printing such structures;
> Emacs will happily work with deeply nested structures in all other
> circumstances. But predictive-mode uses the Lisp printing functions to
> write the dictionaries to file, hence the error when saving.
Question to Emacs developers:
Are there any chances to create a user variable for this reason or to increase
PRINT_CIRCLE value in print.c file?
Thanks,
Seweryn
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-09 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-08 23:33 "Apparently circular structure being printed" Sam Steingold
2010-11-09 7:49 ` "Apparently circular structure being printed" Seweryn
2010-11-09 20:11 ` Seweryn [this message]
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