Subject: bug#28945: 25.2; desktop auto save timer does not work

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 18:53:20 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
> CC: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:42:07 -0400
> 
> desktop.el says it saves status when Emacs is killed.
> For that feature, why does it matter how long you have been editing?
> 
> Does desktop.el now do more than that?

It does.  From the doc string:

  Once a desktop file exists, Emacs will auto-save it according to the
  option ‘desktop-auto-save-timeout’.