Re: auto-save-desktop?

[Steve Wainstead]

Thomas Haselberger wrote:
> Steve Wainstead <swain@ampira.com> writes:
>
>
> > Does anyone know of an extension (or an existing way in Emacs that I
> > missed) to automatically save the desktop?
>
>
> take a look at desktop.el - it is in the emacs lisp directory
> (at least for version 21.x)

I did, and tried (setq desktop-enable t), but if I kill the X session in 
a bad way Emacs does not save the desktop, only if it exits cleanly. 
That is, I ssh -X into the remote box, run Emacs there and display 
locally, and if I kill the xterm I connected with, the desktop is not saved.

It seemed to me a feature similar to auto-save-file would get around 
this. I can probably write the lisp for it and post it back here, but I 
didn't want to duplicate effort needlessly.

~swain