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Emacs. Emacs will autosave every 300 keystrokes or 30 seconds of idle time. You can also configure it because well its Emacs. Has saved my butt on numerous occasions.

It will not reload your session by default but you can do that if you want.



+1 for Emacs autosave. Note that an autosave file is not the original file you were working on but a copy saved at the interval you specify. The original file is left untouched until you explicitly save it.

In case Emacs aborts for some reason, at restart Emacs will alert you that the newer copy exists and ask if you want to use the copy instead, which you usually (but not always) do.

If you want Emacs to automatically save the original file after a configurable interval, use auto-save-visited-mode.




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