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>>>>> On Tue Nov 26, Sir writes:

> How would you preserve the contents of the scratch buffer in elisp?
> When I start up emacs I want what ever I typed into the scratch
> buffer last session to still be there...when I close emacs I want
> what ever the scratch buffer contains to be preserved for the next
> session.

You can get "desktop.el" to do it, as one option.

John