I have a table in emacs and I am trying to narrow some of the columns, say by 7 characters. I tried to do this by using C-7 M-x table-narrow-cell command. However, it says that:
Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
Does anyone know what I need to do? Do I need to change something in the .emacs file?
I tried to do the same with a 3x200 table, and get the same result. One function in the table-narrow-cell implementation (table--vertical-cell-list) is recursive, and it looks like when the table is large enough, it blows up. I tried increasing the value of max-specpdl-size (see documentation at the end of Section 11.3 of GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual), but it made no difference.
Will org-mode tables be good enough for your purposes instead?
Update: I made a typo in the variable name when trying to modify the variable's value. Chaging the max-specpdl-size to 10000, I was able to use the function. If this is not an operation you are expecting to do very often, you can change it on the fly: M-:, (setq max-specpdl-size 10000), resize table. Alternatively, you can find a safe value, and add it to .emacs.