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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The emacs_backtrace "feature"
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:54:41 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mx0652by.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8vbsp9o1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 29 Sep 2012 21:48:39 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I really dislike the idea of writing those backtraces into a file (when
> RMS mentioned it, I was shocked), but the more it goes, the more I think
> it would make sense for the non-ENABLE_CHECKING builds.  Tho maybe just
> not showing the backtraces at all would work just as well in those cases.

The user often wouldn't even be aware of the existence of these files.
Littering the filesystem with these backtrace files is kind of
obnoxious.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-01  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-21  9:49 The emacs_backtrace "feature" Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-21  9:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-09-21 10:17   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-21 12:00     ` Andreas Schwab
2012-09-21 19:29   ` Florian Weimer
2012-09-21 19:45     ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-24 15:52       ` Steinar Bang
2012-09-21 12:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-09-21 16:35   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-21 16:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-21 17:07   ` Tom Tromey
2012-09-21 17:41   ` Andreas Schwab
2012-09-21 19:37 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-22 12:05   ` Richard Stallman
2012-09-22 13:54     ` Christoph Scholtes
2012-09-22 14:23       ` covici
2012-09-24 15:55     ` Steinar Bang
2012-09-24 17:29       ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-22 12:41   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-22 19:28     ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-23 13:05     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-23 14:19       ` Andreas Schwab
2012-09-23 19:30         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-23 21:01           ` Nix
2012-09-24  5:00             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-24  9:29               ` Nix
2012-09-24 23:55                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-29 19:31   ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-29 20:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-29 20:51       ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-29 21:19         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-30  1:30           ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-30  9:44             ` messages-buffer-max-lines (was: The emacs_backtrace "feature") Juri Linkov
2012-10-01  5:51               ` messages-buffer-max-lines Paul Eggert
2012-10-01  6:50                 ` messages-buffer-max-lines Chong Yidong
2012-09-30  1:48       ` The emacs_backtrace "feature" Stefan Monnier
2012-09-30  7:14         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-30  7:24           ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-01  2:54         ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-10-01 11:43           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-09-21 21:40 ` Richard Stallman
2012-09-22  6:53   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-24 14:27   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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