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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Bob Rogers <rogers <at> rgrjr.com>
Cc: 50126 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 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.

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