Subject: Re: bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:26:32 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:19:33 -0500
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> > If such user control is not possible, then please confine such files to
> > somewhere under .emacs.d or some other "hidden" directory that is
> 
> Agreed: writing the file into ~/.emacs.d makes a lot more sense.

I agree, but we need to decide what to do if this directory is remote,
because invoking file handlers in this situation is not possible.

Also, on Unix, the information is under the home directory, and the
Unix builds don't themselves create any files, but rather reuse
system-wide settings (which AFAIU aren't settable by users).  So I'm
unsure what this means for platforms other than Windows.