From 4b02310939bc9fea04b238ee0b7ca0c1b99de29d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rafael Laverde <leafar91@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:04:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Editor: Allow new files to be saved before modifing them.

---
 spyder/widgets/editor.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spyder/widgets/editor.py b/spyder/widgets/editor.py
index dbc30eed3e1..9fde1f6fe5e 100644
--- a/spyder/widgets/editor.py
+++ b/spyder/widgets/editor.py
@@ -1301,7 +1301,8 @@ def save(self, index=None, force=False):
             index = self.get_stack_index()
 
         finfo = self.data[index]
-        if not finfo.editor.document().isModified() and not force:
+        if not (finfo.editor.document().isModified() or
+                finfo.newly_created) and not force:
             return True
         if not osp.isfile(finfo.filename) and not force:
             # File has not been saved yet