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Support Lucid documents ignoring ctrl+s

Related products:Lucid Suite
  • July 22, 2025
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Every program uses Ctrl+s for save and my fingers have learned to hit it after every major change, because that’s what I do in every program I use, except now Lucid, which brings up a dialog and that dialog doesn’t even respond to the escape key, so I have to stop and go grab my mouse to put it away.  Argh!  What’s wrong with ctrl+shift+s or anything else.  I know I don’t have to hit save in Lucid, but that’s just not the way I work, I hit ctrl+s.

July 23, 2025

Hi ​@sgartner, thank you for posting in the Lucid Community! Unfortunately, selecting ctrl + s to save isn’t currently supported in Lucid. Instead, your Lucid documents save automatically when you’re online. But we’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. I can certainly understand why this is important to you. 

I’ve converted this post to an idea so that it’s visible to others within the Product Feedback section of the community - from here, they can upvote it and add details of their own.

For more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post:

 

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Ambar D
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  • Lucid community team
  • 1223 replies
  • July 23, 2025

Hi ​@sgartner, thank you for posting in the Lucid Community! Unfortunately, selecting ctrl + s to save isn’t currently supported in Lucid. Instead, your Lucid documents save automatically when you’re online. But we’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. I can certainly understand why this is important to you. 

I’ve converted this post to an idea so that it’s visible to others within the Product Feedback section of the community - from here, they can upvote it and add details of their own.

For more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post:

 


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  • July 24, 2025

Hello,

I agree that Ctrl+S / Command+S should not be overridden. Even though Lucid auto-saves my changes, muscle memory has me pressing Command+S after nearly every edit. Reassigning that shortcut to trigger a modal disrupts my workflow significantly.

Please consider mapping the share functionality to a different key combination.

 

Thanks.


Ambar D
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  • Lucid community team
  • 1223 replies
  • July 24, 2025

Thank you ​@dlathrop for taking the time to add your feedback to this thread and upvote this post!


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  • July 25, 2025

@Ambar D,

Thanks for moving my suggestion to the right place.  I don’t think the title is reflective of my suggestion, I don’t care if ctrl+s saves the document or not, what I care about is the shortcut doing something *other* than save the document.  It’s a key lots of people undoubtedly hit without thinking, so it would be better for it to be completely ignored than bring up a modal dialog (or something else unexpected).


Ambar D
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  • Lucid community team
  • 1223 replies
  • July 25, 2025

Hi ​@sgartner, thank you for that additional context, that’s helpful to understand what your ideal state is here! I certainly understand why this matters to you. 

Our product team is reviewing feedback and comments just like yours within this space in the community as they continue to research product enhancements. Thanks for taking the time to let us know what you’d like to see!


  • Author
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  • July 25, 2025

@Ambar D,

I was hoping you would update the subject of this so that more people might read it and support the suggestion.  As it is, people might very well skip it since they *know* you don’t have to save in Lucid and make an assumption that the thread is about something they won’t care about.

My suggestion would be, “Support Lucid Documents ignoring ctrl+s” or something similar.  I can’t change it, and maybe you can’t either, but if you can I think it would be great.

Thanks either way,

Scott


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  • July 25, 2025

And while I was writing that you updated the title.  Thanks again.


Ambar D
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  • Lucid community team
  • 1223 replies
  • July 25, 2025

Hi ​@sgartner, I very much like your suggestion here! I’ve actually gone ahead and updated the title of this again to better reflect the ask here and ensure we have this properly documented and searchable. Thanks again for taking the time to leave your feedback!


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  • November 19, 2025

Chiming in here.  Ctrl+S is a natural thing I do every 15 - 20s of work.
This modal that appears is infuriating, and actually has nothing to do with saving.  No-one associates Ctrl-S with “sharing”.

Please, for the love of Zeus, either disable this modal, or configure it so that it is disable-able.

I can’t undo 30 years of muscle memory for this ONE application that goes against the natural grain of things.


Ambar D
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  • Lucid community team
  • 1223 replies
  • November 19, 2025

Hi ​@nonsapiens, thank you for adding your feedback to this thread. I certainly understand why this would be impactful to your workflow, and I appreciate you letting us know how important this is to you!