Okay, I think I can reproduce this warning: I startup R --vanilla,
then type Ctrl-C 11 times. On my machine (RedHat Linux 7.1, Athlon 1.2Ghz
chip) the 11th Ctrl-C produces the warning. Again, this is R 1.6.1.
When I ran R in gdb I set a break point at line 393 of src/unix/sys-std.c.
It got triggered after the 10th Ctrl-C and when I printed ReadlineStack, I
got
Breakpoint 1, pushReadline (prompt=0x8255dd8 "> ",
f=0x813ed70 <readline_handler>) at sys-std.c:393
393 warning("An unusual circumstance has arisen in the nesting of
readline input. Please report using bug.report()");
(gdb) print ReadlineStack
$4 = {current = 9, max = 9, fun = {0x813ed70 <readline_handler>,
0x813ed70 <readline_handler>, 0x813ed70 <readline_handler>,
0x813ed70 <readline_handler>, 0x813ed70 <readline_handler>,
0x813ed70 <readline_handler>, 0x813ed70 <readline_handler>,
0x813ed70 <readline_handler>, 0x813ed70 <readline_handler>,
0x813ed70 <readline_handler>}}
I hope this helps.