Subject: bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:42:06 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:08:16 -0800
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Can you at least control _whether_ it is written?

No.  But you can set up a scheduled task to delete it every day, if
you wish.  You can even do this in Emacs, using the midnight.el
package.

> And I'm thinking that the default location should perhaps be somewhere under
> .emacs.d, perhaps with the dir that is currently used as the default recorded
> somehow.

This is dangerous, because accessing the home directory may involve
Lisp evaluation, e.g. if that directory is remote.  This facility must
be as simple and close to the bare metal as possible, or else it will
be more trouble than help.