title: Emacs: How can I use a save list to restore buffers from crash?
body: <p>If you enable the desktop feature, you can return to your previously open set of files when you exit and reenter Emacs. This doesn't seem to be a crash recovery feature however.  </p>
  
  <p>If Emacs crashes, there is a save list called "saves-PID-machine" that has a list of the files that had buffers. The list has the full path to both the file itself and the corresponding <code>~</code> backup file.</p>
  
  <p>How do I use this save list to get back to the set of visited files in buffers that I had before the crash? None of the files had edits pending so recover-session and recover-file don't do anything.</p>