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Juanma Barranquero |
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bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' filesare written |
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Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:45:30 +0100 |
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> Why not add "and whose name is `Emacs'" while you're at it?
Because that would not make sense.
> Seriously, this is not only about applications that generate a backtrace file.
Yes, it is, because David said "[n]one writes indiscriminately to the
current directory in the event of a crash", and...
> It's about the etiquette that applications generally respect on Windows, in
> order to respect the user and user data.
...Emacs does NOT write files at random here and there. We're
specifically talking about a situation where Emacs is going down in
flames, and Eli choose a simple answer that does not require checking
remote accesses or environment variables. I would agree with you if
Emacs were prone to writing files in unexpected places, but a crash
backtrace is an exceptional circumstance.
Again: I understand that you're worried because you've said that
crashes are almost a daily occurrence for you. But I use the trunk
[Stefan: not really, I'm using emacs-24, I swear] and I cannot
remember the last time I had a crash other than assertion failures
after some sweeping "cleanup".
Juanma
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, (continued)
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- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Daniel Colascione, 2012/11/20
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/20
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Drew Adams, 2012/11/20
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/20
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Drew Adams, 2012/11/20
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/20
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Daniel Colascione, 2012/11/20
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/11/21
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' filesare written, Drew Adams, 2012/11/21
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' filesare written,
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- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' filesare written, Drew Adams, 2012/11/21
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' filesare written, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/11/21
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' filesare written, Drew Adams, 2012/11/21
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' filesare written, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/11/21
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether)`emacs_backtrace.txt' filesare written, Drew Adams, 2012/11/21
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/20
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/20
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/20
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/11/20
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt'files are written, Drew Adams, 2012/11/20