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

From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:08:17 -0800

> > Unless we are going to ask each Emacs user to change the default so
> > that the file ends up in .emacs.d, we still have a 
> > discrepancy vs what Stefan asked to do.
> 
> I must have missed that request; all I see from him in Bug#12908
> is a comment about how to deal with the file names

That's because Stefan wrote it in the proper bug thread, and not in this one
(which Eli asked us to abandon (but which he too continues to populate)):

> From: Stefan Monnier Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 1:20 PM
> To: Drew Adams Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& 
> perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written
> 
> > 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.
> 
>         Stefan