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Sometimes I am working on a lot of buffers, when either emacs or my
workstation crash. Fortunately, the buffers are auto-saved. Unfortunately,
it takes me a lot of time to find out which files I was working at. Of
course I could do a find -name '#*#' but that also takes a lot of time. and
that does not always reveal the file name of the original file. So I would
suggest to include the option (controlled by a variable) to save the info
of the auto-save files to a specific file when auto-saving. This would
include the name of the auto-save-file, the name of the original file, and
at least the mode of the buffer. Then it would be possible after a crash to
restart emacs with all these buffers loaded.

I also find the way emacs announces auto-save files which are younger than
the corresponding file a bit annoying. The message is 'Consider M-x
recover-file'. Then if you want to do this you have to enter the filename
explicitly, and answer a yes/no question. It would be much easier to have a
function that recovers the file that you are just editing, e.g. if emacs
would ask the question:
 "auto-save-file newer - do you want to recover (yes/no)".
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Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,
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