On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Robert Inder <robert@interactive.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> I'd like to be able to make the *scratch* buffer persist between sessions.
>
> I realise that it is meant for things I don't want to save.  But every few
> months, I get interrupted or distracted, and realise I have quit emacs or
> rebooted a machine while there was something significant in *scratch*.  To
> know that I wouldn't lose stuff when that happened, I'd happily pay the
> price of having to flush the buffer occasionally.
>
> I can't be the only one that is bitten by this from time to time.
>

​You are not.  The "persistent-scratch" package available from MELPA does
exactly what you want.  Simply install it and add this to your Emacs
initialization file:

;;; Persistent Scratch - make *scratch* buffer persist across Emacs
invocations
(persistent-scratch-setup-default)

Bob