<p>99% of other editors do not provide you with multiple methods of saving files as Geany does.</p>
<p>One just writes over the original file, one writes to a temporary file then renames it over the original, one tries the first also copying the original metadata and if it doesn't work tries the second.</p>
<p>These will appear to monitoring software as different actions, some of which may not trigger it.</p>
<p>All this is explained in detail in the wiki article.  As suggested above, trying the different saving settings may solve your problem.</p>

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