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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:47:02 -0500
> > From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>
> >
> > If you designed it right, this wouldn't be a problem.  In normal
> > circumstances, simply remove all backups on close.  If emacs does crash,
> > on open it can ask whether each buffer should be restored or deleted,
> > ala OpenOffice.
>
> Isn't that what auto-save already does?

are you saying that autosave can already be configured
to save the contents of buffers that don't have files
associated with them?