Wish List: support making *scratch* persistent

[Robert Inder <robert@interactive.co.uk>]

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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.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is a way I could do this -- something I
could put in my .emacs that would link "*scratch*" to a file.
So maybe this is just a documentation problem.

But I often have to use emacs on shared accounts (e.g. root) so I'd like to
think there was a standard/sanctioned way to do what I want.

​Robert.​

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