ken wrote:
> On 07/06/2009 04:57 AM Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
>> () Nobuko Three <nbko3@yahoo.com>
>> () Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:29:13 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>    Normally after emacs is crashed, you know you need to use M-x
>>    recover-session, but it could happen that you go to lunch after
>>    crash, you come back, you start emacs again, you forget to do
>>    recover-session and open foo.bar and then also miss the
>>    "foo.txt has auto save data..." message.
>>
>>    How do you deal with this problem?
>>
>> Go to lunch before the crash!
>> Think faster but type slower!
>> Or, (setq message-log-max t),
>> + `C-h e' every now and then.
>>
>> thi
> 
> In buffers which have auto-save data I'd like to see an orange
> background.  In addition, I'd like to hear a beep when I try to type
> into that buffer with the standard message/prompt in the minibuffer that
> there's auto-save data... should I pull it in or discard it.

Attached is code that does that, plus undoes all those effects when
you do recover the file.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA