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27.2; Backtrace put in home dir, not current dir

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Scott Otterson <scotto <at> sharpleaf.org>
Subject: bug#51758: 27.2; Backtrace put in home dir, not current dir
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:52:26 +0200

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

>> That's right, I thought that the "current directory" was the
>> `current-directory'.  Like most people would, I'd
>> guess.
>
> What is your interpretation of current-directory in this case?  Where
> do you think that is?

"The value of `current-directory' where the user was when the crash
happened" would be the natural interpretation.

Why not just change the message to "the directory Emacs was started
from"?  That should be clear.

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