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From: baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Steven L. Baur)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Saving/Restoring state in GNU Emacs 18.55
Message-ID: <668@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 14 Jul 90 20:49:37 GMT
References: <9474@uswat.UUCP>
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA
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From article <9474@uswat.UUCP>, by naim@uswat.uswest.com (Naim Abdullah):
> I am currently using a machine that sometimes crashes and destroys
> my carefully built state in GNU emacs (all the files and buffer
> that I am editing).

What you definitely want to use is saveconf.el, but that is not much
help against system crashes (your state information doesn't get written
out).  Your best hope is to use saveconf, exit emacs periodically, and
restart it. Emacs is a marvelous program, and does many wonderful things,
but it cannot protect you completely against a system crash.  Maybe
someone wants to add code to saveconf.el to periodically write out window
state?

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steve	baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM