Save on save

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

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.

Riki