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27.2; Backtrace put in home dir, not current dir

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Scott Otterson <scotto <at> sharpleaf.org>
Cc: 51758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Subject: bug#51758: 27.2; Backtrace put in home dir, not current dir
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 18:42:40 +0300

> From: Scott Otterson <scotto <at> sharpleaf.org>
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 07:31:34 -0700
> 
> The default directory of the buffer that was active when emacs crashed.  In my case, I had only one buffer
> open, so this was obvious, but I can see how it wouldn't be necessarily.

Yes, but which buffer?  When Emacs crashes, there could be several
buffers in the session, each one with its own default-directory.

> So, Lars's recommended text change seems like a good one to me.

Lars suggested to say EMACSHOME, which is simply incorrect.

Would it be okay to say that the file gets written in the directory
where Emacs was started?  The only problem with that is that people
may not know where that is...

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