Subject: bug#66743: 30.0.50; Crash when dumping reftex

From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 12:14:08 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> See the attached patch.
>
> If you are suggesting this for upstream, then it's not optimal, at
> least in interactive session: the stderr stream is usually redirected
> to some bottomless OS pit where no one could see it.

`dump-emacs-portable' does not work in interactive sessions:

  if (! noninteractive)
    error ("Dumping Emacs currently works only in batch mode.  "
           "If you'd like it to work interactively, please consider "
           "contributing a patch to Emacs.");

If you mean that `dump-emacs-portable' should be made interactive, it is
a much harder task as many emacs_abort (); calls in pdumper.c would need
to be changed to something suitable for interactive sessions.

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