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I have an app with a lot of settings in long form pages. You are expected to go to the pages to view the current settings, or to update them.

I would like to make it so that the "update" button is only enabled if someone actually changes the current inputs.

My naive approach would be to add an ng-change attribute to every input that sets the enableButton flag

<form name='form' ng-submit="submit()">
   <input type="sometype" ng-model='something1' ng-change="formChanged=true"></input>
   ...
   <input ng-model='somethingN' ng-change="formChanged=true"></input>
   <button ng-disabled="!formChanged" type="submit" />
</form>

but this seems tedious and repetitive (we have a lot of options), and was hoping for something simple (something like "form.$hasChanged"...)

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Instead of setting a flag n change of any input of form, you should use the angular built in $dirty property on the form controller object. It tells whether the user has interacted with the form's elements.

<form name='form' ng-submit="submit()">
   <input name="some1" type="sometype" ng-model='something1' ></input>
   ...
   <input name="some2" ng-model='somethingN' ></input>
   <button ng-disabled="!form.$dirty" type="submit" />
</form>

Using $pristine flag you could do 

<button ng-disabled="form.$pristine" type="submit" />

Similarly if you have validators on the form you could as well make use of $valid property, example disable the button if the form is invalid or pristine

<button ng-disabled="form.$pristine|| form.$invalid" type="submit" />
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