Save on save

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 09:53:19AM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 3/19/20 9:46 AM, racoon wrote:
> > On 2020-03-19 14:43, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> >> On 3/19/20 5:43 AM, Daniel wrote:
> >>> All applications (Libre Writer, Pages, Visual Studio Code, TextEdit,
> >>> etc.) I tested save my documents whenever I press ctrl|cmd+S or choose
> >>> Save from the menu. This can be seen, for example, from the modified
> >>> date being updated.
> >>>
> >>> The only exception are MS office (which does not save and not gray out
> >>> the Save menu) and LyX (which does not save but does at least gray out
> >>> the Save menu). Is there a particular reason LyX behaves in this way?
> >>> Is there a way, I can change this behavior and force a save?
> >>
> >> You mean if the document is not dirty? Hit "s", backspace, then save.
> >> I.e, make it dirty.
> >>
> >> Riki
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I find it hard to remember doing this. So, I would like to change LyX's
> > Save command to a forced saving.
> >
> > Maybe there is a nice command sequence that renders the document dirty,
> > maybe via some change; undoes the change, if there was one made; saves?
> 
> Yes, you could assign something like "command-sequence self-insert s;
> char-delete-backward; buffer-write" to Ctrl-S. Undo won't work, because
> then the document isn't dirty again.

It's always useful to have a use case for motivation. racoon, what is
your use case? I've come across this when I wanted to do something like
open a 2.2.x file in 2.3.x and save it just to update the file format. I
then commit those changes in git, and then I make a change. That ways I
separate out the format update from the change.

Scott
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