Hi! I just noticed that Ruby mode can go into infinite recursion (or "Lisp nesting exceeds ‘max-lisp-eval-depth’"). I managed to boil it down to the following: Evaluate (setq debug-on-error t) Open a new file, say test.rb Type: func do { And press return. In the backtrace, the following is listed over and over again: ruby-smie--indent-to-stmt() ruby-smie-rules(:before "{") smie-indent--rule-1(:before "{" nil nil) smie-indent--rule(:before "{") smie-indent-keyword() run-hook-with-args-until-success(smie-indent-keyword) smie-indent-calculate() smie-indent-virtual() It happens in Emacs 25.2 and in a week-old build from the master branch. Sincerely, Anders Lindgren In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-apple-darwin16.6.0, NS appkit-1504.83 Version 10.12.5 (Build 16F73)) of 2017-10-25 built on mbp.lan Repository revision: bc9300ac5ed3bdf52a2f8b9e217236e1ee76cd02 Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1504 Recent messages: t (New file) Mark set s-( is undefined Mark set Entering debugger... Error in debug printer: (void-function t) [1113 times] Error during redisplay: (ucs-normalize-hfs-nfd-pre-write-conversion 1 92) signaled (error "Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size") [2 times] set-auto-coding: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size Back to top level Configured features: JPEG NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS Important settings: value of $LC_CTYPE: UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_SE.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Special Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny seq byte-opt dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils help-mode warnings gv bytecomp byte-compile cl-loaddefs cl-lib cconv debug vc-dispatcher vc-svn ruby-mode smie easymenu elec-pair time-date tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote kqueue cocoa ns multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 209217 10912) (symbols 48 20615 1) (miscs 40 57 249) (strings 32 30746 1897) (string-bytes 1 808845) (vectors 16 35813) (vector-slots 8 721700 15012) (floats 8 49 266) (intervals 56 218 0) (buffers 992 14))