Save file even without file changes - so that Nodemon, Gulp, Chokidar and other file watchers restart

[Arrow7000]

It would be very useful to have VSCode save a file even when no file changes have taken place, because when an error occurs, Nodemon crashes and doesn't restart the app until a save has taken place.

So even if you want to restart the server without making any file changes - sometimes bugs happen due to a runtime event, it's not always an obvious bug in your code, you have to make some kind of unnecessary change, like typing a space before being able to save, which is annoying.

[chrisdchristo]

+1

Needed for gulp watching.

[Izhaki]

+1

Need for chokidar-cli used in npm scripts

I find myself too many times hitting space and then cmd-s.

[bpasero]

Verify: you can save files that are not dirty and their mtime/atime changes on disk. E.g. install an external node watcher and verify it fires.

[PunchyRascal]

Well that's basically what my setup is (I use https://github.com/guard/guard) and it does not detect any change and so does not run any tests. Just now I tried to save file without any changes and there is no change to any of the file stats (dates) either on remote or local drive.

[bpasero]

@PunchyRascal you can verify this tomorrow from our insider build when it lands.

You can give our preview releases a try from: http://code.visualstudio.com/Download#insiders

[PunchyRascal]

Work perfectly, thanks. Tried on:

• VSCode Version: Code - Insiders 1.6.0-insider (0a0bfed, 2016-09-20T06:11:03.267Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT ia32 10.0.14393

[bpasero]

@PunchyRascal thanks, marking as verified.