infinite loop in xemacs (20.0) w/ ESS for SAS (5.1.18)

[Rodney Sparapani]

ess-help:

When I submit the essl-sas.el line

>  (defvar SAS-mode-font-lock-keywords ...

I get the error:

Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size

Rodney

>Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:12:21 -0500 (EST)
>From: Rich Heiberger <rmh at surfer.sbm.temple.edu>
>To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch, Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at post.its.mcw.edu>
>Subject: Re:  infinite loop in xemacs (20.0) w/ ESS for SAS (5.1.18)
>
>My next guess is that there is a conflict between make-regexp.el and Xemacs.
>
>Does anyone else have a similar problem on Xemacs and ESS?
>
>The only irregularity I see in what you did is the `provide' statement.
>You should not do that in .emacs.  The provide statement is usually the last
>line in a package,  in this case it is the last executable statement in
>make-regexp.el.
>
>Can you attempt a line-by-line execution of essl-sas.el to confirm which
>statement is causing the conflict?
>
>Rich
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