Save on save

[racoon]

On 2020-03-19 14:53, 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.
>
> Riki
>
>

Unfortunately, when the settings dialog is closed and re-opened
everything that comes after the first semi-colon is chopped off. Is that
a bug?

Daniel