[Bug: 21.5-b27] font-lock-fontify-* / infinite loop

[Wulf C. Krueger]

Hallo Stephen!

"SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

 >> /usr/lib/xemacs-21.5-b27/lisp/subr.el:(defmacro lambda (&rest cdr)
 SJT> OK, I guess that's just what a compiled macro looks like: a lambda
 SJT> form, except with the car 'macro instead of 'lambda.  

Ok, sorry, I must admit that I'm not really fluent in Lisp. I can find
my way around but I have hardly any grasp of such concepts in Lisp.

 SJT> You don't have to; it's a Gnus "feature" (Microsoft
 SJT> Windows-style), and you have to disable it (at least, that used to
 SJT> be the case).

Ah, ok, thanks. I've disabled it as you kindly described in
<877ivtfuw2.fsf at uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> but, alas, it didn't help.

 SJT> Gnus is very helpful in crashing XEmacs.  That's the main reason
 SJT> why I run it---as a torture test.

:-) Interestingly, until now I've never really had any difficulties (not
one crash ever) with Gnus.

 SJT> Well, you could use the XEmacs package of Gnus which is known to
 SJT> work; that's why it's in the packages.

That's what I currently do but it's slower and has some other problems
(especially when rendering HTML emails with w3m) which is why I still
try to get Gnus from Gnus CVS to work.

 SJT> you're going to need to find the dependency and ensure that the
 SJT> macro definition is loaded before the file that references it is
 SJT> compiled.

Still trying. What I don't understand is why Adrian can't reproduce my
problem. Apart from some minimal additional elisps I don't use anything
special and the error occurs even without any of my own stuff.

-- 
Grüße, Wulf