Save on save

[racoon]

On 2020-03-19 15:08, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 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
>

My use case is that I often change the closed/open state of insets which
does not render the document dirty. But I still want LyX to remember
these changes. And I often forget to render it artificially dirty before
saving.

(For some reasons my RE posts get a "Is being held until the list
moderator can review it for approval.")

Daniel