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From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Saving window configurations
Message-ID: <346@talos.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 88 12:52:18 GMT
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In article <4300020@m.cs.uiuc.edu> grunwald@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>BTW: does anyone know how to occasionally save the configuration incase
>you don't exit cleanly?

If you've installed my recently posted `timer' package, you can say

(start-timer "auto-save-context" 'save-context 300 300)

to get the context saved every five minutes (300 seconds).