Re: debugging "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-dept" error??

[Martin Maechler]

Dear Chris,

I've started to use "Emacs CVS" (22.50.1) today and quickly got
problems with a "permanently reproduced" 1) error message

Error in post-command-hook: (error Lisp nesting exceeds `max-lisp-eval-depth')

When googling for this, I quickly found your posting to the
emacs-pretest-bug mailing list
with
  Subject: Re: debugging "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth" error?
  Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 14:31:23 +0100

where you reported to have seen similar problems, caused by a
long " historically grown ~/.emacs " --- exactly my situation as well.

You had ended up making a reproducible bug involving recursive
loading of tramp.elc (which I think is another problem, not the
same as the "Lisp nesting exceeds...").

Anyway, I'd really like a solution to this problem, because it
is too much of a pain for me to continue using emacs 22.0.x.  In
case you have found out more about this, I'd be glad to hear about
it.

Regards,
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich


1) "permanently reproduced" : The message appears whenever I try
   to use M-x and also for other things like "dired"..
   A complete pain ITA..

PS: I'd be grateful if people can keep me CC'ed on this topic