Re: A wish, a plea

[Davis Herring]

> But I wasn't in programming mode, so I was in scratch, and lost
> everything I was writing, because scratch isn't backed up by anything.

The simple answer here is M-x auto-save-mode.  You can of course put
(auto-save-mode 1) in .emacs, since *scratch* is current when it runs. 
Actually getting rid of *scratch* is somewhat harder.

Davis

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