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  1. Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 23:49:17 PDT
  2. Message-ID: <9208170649.AA21238@thalidomide.lucid>
  3. X-Windows: It could happen to you.
  4. From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
  5. Sender: jwz%thalidomide@lucid.com
  6. Subject: Re: Error in init file: error: "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth"
  7. References: <5523.714023091@JUNIN.MT.CS.CMU.EDU>
  8.     <GRUNWALD.92Aug16100930@goober.cs.colorado.edu>
  9. Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
  10. Path: sparky!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!help-lucid-emacs
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  12.  
  13. In message <5523.714023091@JUNIN.MT.CS.CMU.EDU> Todd Kaufmann wrote:
  14. >
  15. > You will either see a function calling itself recursively, or all different
  16. > functions.  If the latter, you might only need to increase the value of
  17. > max-lisp-eval-depth.
  18.  
  19. If you need to increase max-lisp-eval-depth (that is, it's not actually
  20. looping) then this probably means you're loading something interpreted
  21. that doesn't want to be.
  22.  
  23.     -- Jamie
  24.