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bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'? |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:01:40 -0800 |
(I see that everyone is using the original bug thread, even though I created a
new one at Eli's request, and the original one was supposedly closed (doc
fixed).)
> (Note that unlike on Unix, Emacs on Windows doesn't change its current
> directory from where it was started, so the backtrace will normally
> end up in the same directory for all invocations of Emacs on that
> machine by that user.)
>
> If we want the information in .emacs.d, we need to actively write it
> there on Unix.
On Windows, I believe that some (many? most?) users start Emacs from a shortcut,
and that some (many? most?) of those start it in a directory that has meaning
for them, e.g., a directory of user files.
(I, for example, start it in a directory of my Emacs Lisp files, and I open it
with Dired there.)
Is the situation similar on Unix? Do users often start Emacs in a user
directory?
It's one thing to stick the backtrace file in the startup directory if that is
the default Emacs bin directory or some such Emacs-related folder. It's another
thing to stick the file in a user directory because the user intentionally
starts Emacs there.
That has been my point from the beginning: I don't really care where you stick
it, as long as it is in some Emacs/system internal program folder and not a user
folder.
There is a reason why programs on Windows are often installed (and started) in
an application-specific folder under `Program Files', and not in any old user
folder.
- bug#12911: bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?, (continued)
- bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/17
- bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/17
- bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?, Paul Eggert, 2012/11/18
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/18
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Paul Eggert, 2012/11/18
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/18
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/18
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/18
- bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?, Paul Eggert, 2012/11/17
- bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/17
- bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?, Drew Adams, 2012/11/17
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/18
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Drew Adams, 2012/11/18
- bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?, Paul Eggert, 2012/11/18
- bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/18
- bug#12908: 24.3.50; file `emacs_backtrace.txt'?, Achim Gratz, 2012/11/18