Add "Save Selected Tabs" menu item in files pane

[kortschak]

Problem description

When making a large number of search replace changes over a project it would be helpful to be able to save all the changed files. When there are files open that have been edited but the user does not yet wish the save, the "Save All" menu option is not a solution.

Preferred solution

Add a "Save Selected Tabs" option to the "Open Files" pane contextual menu.

Alternatives

A plugin has been suggested, otherwise it's just a matter of saving each file individually.

Additional Information

No response

[rchl]

For "Save Selected Tabs" to work, one would have to first select all the affected tabs. It doesn't sound like that would add that much to convenience.

[kortschak]

Shift-select is a thing; you can select the top file and shift-select the bottom file and you have now selected all the intervening files. This is a significant time saver.

[rchl]

Unless the files that were modified were already open and are scattered around the file list. Then you still have to look for them and hope that those are the ones that were actually modified by search&replace and not for a different reason.

Still, the feature sounds useful so I'm not against it. But it's not fixing the search&replace problem specifically.

[kortschak]

It would have saved me ~half an hour today.

[deathaxe]

As there is a command "Close Selected Tabs" already, a discussion of usefullness about selecting tabs to perform an operation is more or less obsolete.

It would be just another command which can be used if desired, depending on personal preferences and workflows.