Re: Infinite recursion ?

[Nick Dokos]

David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com> writes:

> Haven't figured this out yet, but I seem to be hitting an "infinite
> recursion" bug that eventually dies when it runs out of memory.
>
> The scenario (so far) is trying to change an Org tag in the agenda
> (':'). The command gives me the tags that I then edit and save whereupon
> it sits in an infinite recursion until it hits a limit in Emacs. If I
> quit, the files seem to have been updated, but the Agenda isn't.  I'm
> still trying to figure out how to debug this.  Setting debug-on-quit was
> not consistent and didn't seem to have a large list of function calls
> (ie. the recursion).  Any ideas?
>
> This is Emacs 26.3 with Orgmode 9.4.  I'm also using Org-Super-Agenda
> from Melpa (20200310.1337).
>
> Side question that might be related: org-agenda started positioning
> itself at the end of the agenda rather than the beginning after building
> the agenda.  I don't think I changed something for this.  What could
> cause this?

What's the error message? Did you try setting `debug-on-eror'? Does that give
a more useful backtrace?

-- 
Nick

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