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bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_ba


From: Drew Adams
Subject: bug#12911: 24.3.50; let users decide where (& perhaps whether) `emacs_backtrace.txt' files are written
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:24:34 -0800

> > The backtrace file, wherever it might be saved: does it get 
> > overwritten when there is a new crash, or is a new version
> > of it created (e.g. emacs_backtrace.txt~259~)?
> 
> On MS-Windows, neither: the new backtrace gets appended to the file.
> I don't know what happens on Unix.

OK.  Same question though - would it make sense for a subsequent Emacs session,
if it finds the file, to prepare a bug-report message that includes the info in
the file and propose that the user send it?  And perhaps then delete the file?
(All with user approval, of course.)






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