Save File when BBEdit sent to the background

MacOSX Guru

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Sep 3, 2020, 9:38:33 AM9/3/20

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Does this command work in BBEdit 12.6.7?

defaults write com.barebones.bbedit WriteChangesWhenSentToBackground -bool YES

I didn't find any reference to this in the version 12 manual.

Or is it a version 13 expert preference?

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Rich Siegel

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Sep 3, 2020, 9:41:03 AM9/3/20

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On 3 Sep 2020, at 3:28, MacOSX Guru wrote:

> Does this command work in BBEdit 12.6.7?
>
> defaults write com.barebones.bbedit WriteChangesWhenSentToBackground
> -bool
> YES

That change was introduced in BBEdit 13.1; older versions do not have
the feature.

R.

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TJ Luoma

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Sep 3, 2020, 8:30:21 PM9/3/20

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If you use Keyboard Maestro, you can emulate this behavior using AppleScript. Let me know if you want me to dig it out.

TJ

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Sep 3, 2020, 8:52:56 PM9/3/20

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Thank you TJ Luoma.

I found it at https://groups.google.com/d/topic/bbedit/dfT5wJY5wSI/discussion and am using it. I was just curious to know whether the expert preference worked in version 12.