Ok; so it's not broken, just turned off during the development period? Or forever, only certian signals (like a sigabort?) will make it autosave? I'm learning to use `screen', and plan to use that to run XEmacs with a gnuclient, so that if my X session goes down, or the gnuserv dies, I can still connect to that XEmacs. (I'm a little ashamed to admit that I've not gotten much farther along in reading the XEmacs sources than where I was at last fall before I took off to go skiing... I'm still studying "Essentials of Programming Languages", (if anyone's heard of it), and am at the point where I think I'll understand XEmacs' byte code engine and reader.) Still plugging away at it... Karl.