> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Scott Otterson <scotto@sharpleaf.org>, 51758@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:52:26 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> That's right, I thought that the "current directory" was the
> >> `current-directory'. Like most people would, I'd
> >> guess.
> >
> > What is your interpretation of current-directory in this case? Where
> > do you think that is?
>
> "The value of `current-directory' where the user was when the crash
> happened" would be the natural interpretation.
You mean default-directory, I presume?
The problem, as I explained, is that there's a different one in every
buffer, and there could be many of them. As far as users are
concerned, Emacs doesn't have a well-defined notion of "current
directory", so saying "where the user was" makes little sense with
Emacs.
> Why not just change the message to "the directory Emacs was started
> from"? That should be clear.
I'm okay with that, I just fear that many users won't know where that
is. On MS-Windows, the starting directory can (and usually is)
determined by the desktop shortcut used to start Emacs, and people
rarely are aware where is that.