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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:47:16 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:47:38 -0800
> 
> > "The file system directory used to physically store a user's common
> > repository of documents."  What do you make of that?  "User's
> > documents", not "user's files".
> 
> A distinction without a meaning, in the present context.  Trouncing user stuff
> is a no-no, whether that stuff is "documents" or files.

That's your interpretation.  It isn't written anywhere.

> The distinction that matters here is user vs application.

There's no distinction.

> You do not seem to want to recognize any difference between a user's photo of
> his grandmother and a cache file used by a program to optimize access to that
> photo.  (Hint: the user cares about Grandma; s?he does not care about the
> cache.)

Your hint is wrong.  I care about my caches dearly.

> It's hard for me to believe this is even a point open to debate. 

Well, it evidently is, and you fail to convince.  You are just
repeating yourself.

> > Don't believe everything Wikipedia says.
> 
> You don't seem to want to believe your own eyes.

I believe my experience.

> Store program-internal data where other programs do (on Windows).

Which is everywhere and nowhere.