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29.1; M-x throwing error with ConTeXt mode

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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 69081 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Allen Juntao Fang <shofly12 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#69081: 29.1; M-x throwing error with ConTeXt mode
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 23:42:38 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:10:13 -0500
>> From: Allen Juntao Fang <shofly12 <at> gmail.com>
>> 
>> M-x on start up triggers the "Symbol's chain of function indirections
>> contains a loop: ConTeXt mode". When I load my init.el from emacs-q, the
>> error does not occur. This appeared after updating auctex recently,
>> although I'm not sure where the error could come from given that it does
>> not appear in emacs -q
>
> Thank you for your report.
>
> Since the problem doesn't happen in "emacs -q", we ask you to provide
> a recipe, starting from "emacs -q" and loading the minimum set of
> optional features, which we could use to reproduce the problem and
> investigate it.  In particular, it sounds like you are using something
> called "ConTeXt mode", which AFAIK is not part of Emacs -- the recipe
> we ask you to post should include whatever is needed to activate that
> mode, which seems to be part of the issue.

Allen mentioned "auctex", which is where the mode is defined.  As such,
it might be more appropriate to report the bug to bug-auctex <at> gnu.org.

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