Re: Gratuitous user interface change risks losing user work

[Richard Stallman]

    On that note I was wondering if there was any option to have emacs make more
    backup files. It seems it only does so when I first save the file after
    visiting it. But I normally only start a new Emacs when it crashes or I have
    to reboot my machine which isn't very often. So I end up without many backup
    files.

There are manual ways to make backup files, but there is no automatic
feature to do this.

We could implement such a feature, given a good idea for a criterion
for when to make another backup file.  Not till after the release,
though.