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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 12911 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:49:19 +0200

> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:36:50 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 12911 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> It's not as if the user is going to get backtraces all over his hard
> disk on every single run.

"All over the hard disk" will almost never happen, because people who
invoke Emacs from a desktop icon will always have Emacs run in the
same directory.  All the backtraces will be on a single file in that
directory.
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