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From: Seweryn <sewkokot@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: &amp; quot; Apparently circular structure being printed&amp; 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




      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 ` &quot;Apparently circular structure being printed&quot; Seweryn
2010-11-09 20:11   ` Seweryn [this message]

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