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bug#39805: 28.0.50; scan-sexps (scan_lists) incorrectly parsing circular
From: |
Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
bug#39805: 28.0.50; scan-sexps (scan_lists) incorrectly parsing circular list |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:38:12 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
# seems to be long standing
found 39805 25.3
tags 39805 + confirmed
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No Wayman <iarchivedmywholelife@gmail.com> writes:
> While developing a package that utilizes circular lists, I ran
> into a bug when trying to describe-variable
> a variable that contains circular lists. I've hewed it down to the
> following:
>
> ** Minimal Reproducible Case
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results raw h replace
> (condition-case-unless-debug err
> (with-temp-buffer
> (insert "(#9=() :key val)")
> (pp-buffer)
> nil)
It doesn't fail if the buffer is changed to emacs-lisp-mode before the
pp-buffer call. I guess scan-sexps doesn't handle the #N= correctly
unless the syntax-table has been set for emacs-lisp. I note that
pp-to-string does some setup on its temp buffer, so maybe
describe-variable needs to do that too.
For the record, to reproduce the error from describe-variable, a
slightly less minimal example is needed (because the value must be more
than 68 characters long to trigger pretty printing)
(setq vv '(#1=(a b) :key val #1# :key val :key val :key val :key val))
(describe-variable 'vv)