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28.0.50; "mode: conf" and "mode: tex" get unbounded recursion

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From: Bob Rogers <rogers <at> rgrjr.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; "mode: conf" and "mode: tex" get unbounded recursion
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:11:45 -0400

   In "emacs -Q" in master rebuilt a few hours ago, when I open the file
shown below with "# -*- mode: conf; -*-" I get a "Lisp nesting exceeds
 max-lisp-eval-depth " error because conf-mode is trying to dispatch to
one of its submodes, but the submode then calls run-mode-hooks which
ends up back in conf-mode, ad inf.  Using this minimal broken.conf file:

	# -*- mode: conf; -*-

is sufficient; here's the top of the backtrace:

	Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Lisp nesting exceeds  max-lisp-eval-depth ")
	  apply(#f(compiled-function (orig-fun) "Redirect to one of the submodes when called directly." #<bytecode -0xe6df0765af3b07>) #f(compiled-function () (interactive nil) #<bytecode 0xdf70887525b4bad>) nil)
	  conf-mode()
	  conf-unix-mode()
	  #f(compiled-function (orig-fun) "Redirect to one of the submodes when called directly." #<bytecode -0xe6df0765af3b07>)(#f(compiled-function () (interactive nil) #<bytecode 0xdf70887525b4bad>))
	  apply(#f(compiled-function (orig-fun) "Redirect to one of the submodes when called directly." #<bytecode -0xe6df0765af3b07>) #f(compiled-function () (interactive nil) #<bytecode 0xdf70887525b4bad>) nil)
	  conf-mode()
	  hack-one-local-variable(mode conf)
	  hack-local-variables-apply()
	  hack-local-variables(no-mode)
	  run-mode-hooks(conf-unix-mode-hook)
	  conf-unix-mode()
	  #f(compiled-function (orig-fun) "Redirect to one of the submodes when called directly." #<bytecode -0xe6df0765af3b07>)(#f(compiled-function () (interactive nil) #<bytecode 0xdf70887525b4bad>))
	  apply(#f(compiled-function (orig-fun) "Redirect to one of the submodes when called directly." #<bytecode -0xe6df0765af3b07>) #f(compiled-function () (interactive nil) #<bytecode 0xdf70887525b4bad>) nil)
	  conf-mode()
	  hack-one-local-variable(mode conf)
	  . . .

It fails with conf-unix-mode in the simple case of the configuration
file above; unsurprisingly, I've also seen it fail with conf-space-mode.
And "mode: tex;" has the same general problem, since it uses the same
dispatch logic.

   I would attempt a patch, but I have no clue what TRT would be here.
It would seem cleanest to keep conf-mode and tex-mode as user-visible
modes, and make new generic-conf-mode and generic-tex-mode parents for
their submodes, but that seems like it could be a fairly large change.
Using delay-mode-hooks might be simpler, but I have no idea how that
would work.

					-- Bob Rogers
					   http://www.rgrjr.com/

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Message #8 received at 50126 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Bob Rogers <rogers <at> rgrjr.com>
Cc: 50126 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50126: 28.0.50; "mode: conf" and "mode: tex" get unbounded
 recursion
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:58:05 +0200

Bob Rogers <rogers <at> rgrjr.com> writes:

> It fails with conf-unix-mode in the simple case of the configuration
> file above; unsurprisingly, I've also seen it fail with conf-space-mode.
> And "mode: tex;" has the same general problem, since it uses the same
> dispatch logic.

Yeah, that's pretty odd dispatch logic, but I guess it's for historical
reasons.

The easy way to hack around this issue is to just disable recursion via
file-local variables, so I've done that now in Emacs 28.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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