Keyboard Maestro 8.2.4 “BBEdit - Auto-Save on Deactivate & Every Minute While Active” Macro
BBEdit - Auto-Save on Deactivate & Every Minute While Active.kmmacros (2.9 KB)
This is one of my most-used Keyboard Maestro macros, and I never even have to think about it… which is my favorite kind of automation.
As of today, it just got a lot better, thanks to the BBEdit-Talk mailing list.
It automatically saves all of my open text documents:
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Every minute while I’m using BBEdit (aka “is active” in Keyboard Maestro parlance)
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Every time I switch away from BBEdit to another app (aka “deactivates” in Keyboard Maestro)
That’s pretty cool, but the best part (IMO) is this: it will only save files that have already been saved.
Which means that if I have some temporary file open which hasn’t been saved (and probably doesn’t need to be saved), then I won’t get prompted to save the files. I tend to use a lot of temporary files in BBEdit, so this is a huge plus for me.
You can find the BBEdit-Talk list on Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bbedit.
You can also jump directly to this discussion at https://groups.google.com/d/topic/bbedit/dfT5wJY5wSI/discussion.
This macros is also on GitHub at https://github.com/tjluoma/keyboard-maestro/tree/master/bbedit/auto-save