How can I have emacs save my desktop periodically, so it will persist even if I do not exit with C-c C-x in desktop-save-mode or save manually?
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Ordinarily, one would use a timer to repeat a task at given time intervals. However, the manual node on Saving Emacs Sessions states that:
When
desktop-save-modeis active and the desktop file exists, Emacs auto-saves it everydesktop-auto-save-timeoutseconds, if that is non-niland non-zero.
I found this information by looking in the elisp manual on Desktop Save Mode and following the link to the manual node on Saving Emacs Sessions.
