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Re: & quot; Apparently circular structure being printed& quot;
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Seweryn |
Subject: |
Re: & quot; Apparently circular structure being printed& quot; |
Date: |
Tue, 9 Nov 2010 20:11:25 +0000 (UTC) |
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Loom/3.14 (http://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