Because this way there is one default dump file.
Maybe it should be $home/lib/acme.dump
But when i turn on my terminal it runs acme -l $home/acme.dump
automatically. And before i turn it off i just press dump.
If I need to preserve a state for longer i can do
Dump otherfile. For me this seems the saner behaviour.

tl;dr I'm against your patch, sorry

2014/1/13 Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalonde@gmail.com>

That seems even more magical, I think.

I've been running with Dump's $HOME lookup changed to $PWD for a few days now with nary a glitch.
Unless someone tells me otherwise I'll start pushing for a patch :-)

Paul

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:

On 13 January 2014 16:42, Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalonde@gmail.com> wrote:

Can anyone explain to me the rationale of Dump dropping acme.dump in $HOME instead of $PWD?

alternatively, if started with acme -l dumpfile, why not write it back to the same file?