Alt+F, S doesn't always save

[natewaddoups]

• VSCode Version: Code 1.13.1 (379d2ef, 2017-06-14T18:21:47.485Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT ia32 10.0.15063
• Extensions:

Extension	Author	Version
bracket-pair-colorizer	CoenraadS	0.10.7
sort-typescript-imports	miclo	1.3.0
csharp	ms-vscode	1.11.0
debugger-for-chrome	msjsdiag	3.1.6

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Steps to Reproduce:

1. Try to save your changes with hotkeys: press "Alt+F" followed by "S".

Expected results: Your changes are saved and you can continue working.

Actual results: The File menu is still showing, changes are not saved, and subsequent keystrokes will be interpreted as File menu hotkeys.

Workaround #1: Press "S" again.
Workaround #2: Pause briefly after "Alt+F". The "S" will work the first time.

There seems to be a race condition where the "S" keystroke gets swallowed before the File menu is displayed.

Data loss has led me to develop an Alt+F,S twitch over the years - I do that key combination every few minutes, without thinking about it, in all applications, and have done so for more than a decade. I've never run into this obstacle in other applications, and it is kind of aggravating to trip over this every time I use VS Code.

[JackTrapper]

It took me about twenty minutes one day to figure out why the web-site was not honoring my updated code file. I know i saved it. Refresh the web-page - old behavior.

• Save again - Alt+F S
• copy to the server

Still not working. I view the file on the server, and it's the old version. Huh, i guess i copied the file to the wrong place.

• copy to the server again.

Still the wrong version. Open the server version on the server; its the old version. What the hell. Maybe i forgot to save it

• Alt+F S
• copy to server

Server still isn't working.

"I know i saved it. And i swear i copied it to the right location

Use Beyond Compare to diff my location version, and the version on the server. They're identical.

How can Beyond Compare say that the two versions match, when i know the version on the server is wrong?!

Look at the comparison inside Beyond Compare; it says that local copy is wrong. That's not possible, i know i saved it!

• Save again Alt+F S

See, no changes picked up by Beyond Compare; the file is current. To prove it i'll make a minor change in the text file, and save it. The file on the disk doesn't change.

Is it possible that Code isn't saving?

• Click File menu
• Click Save

changes picked up.

What? Does Alt+F S not work?

• Alt+F S
• Alt+F S
• Alt+F S
• Alt+F S

Ohhh, i see.

They decided to re-implement menus from scratch, rather than using the tried and true Windows menu control used by every other application on the planet.

Oh well.

[rebornix]

cc @bpasero first to see if he has some ideas about what's happening there, it seems related to #32218

[bpasero]

Duplicate of #20696 ?

[bpasero]

#5556