GNU bug report logs - #12911
24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:50:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 12911 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:36:50 +0100

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> FWIW, I'd be annoyed if I were a w32 user and had to deal with
> emacs_backtrace.txt files appearing in directories without my saying
> so explicitly.

Windows binaries for official releases (as opposed to trunk snapshots)
rarely crash. It's not as if the user is going to get backtraces all
over his hard disk on every single run.

    Juanma
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