Save on save

Guenter Milde milde at users.sf.net
Thu Mar 19 22:09:09 UTC 2020


On 2020-03-19, 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.

>> 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.

I usually use "Save-As" (Shift-Ctrl-S here) in these cases.

Günter



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