From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Seweryn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: & quot; Apparently circular structure being printed& quot; Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 20:11:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87iq07wfus.fsf@sysu76.podval.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289333512 2657 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2010 20:11:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 20:11:52 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 09 21:11:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PFuXh-0004Ar-Tl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:11:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54037 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PFuXh-0003Ko-A2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:11:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42443 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PFuXc-0003KW-AG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:11:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFuXb-0000dx-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:11:40 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:35649) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFuXb-0000dS-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:11:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PFuXZ-00046M-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:11:37 +0100 Original-Received: from 94.163.82.88 ([94.163.82.88]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:11:37 +0100 Original-Received: from sewkokot by 94.163.82.88 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:11:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.163.82.88 (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132481 Archived-At: Seweryn 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