Using the operating system file monitoring was incorporated into Geany some time ago, but it was buggy and nobody could get it to be reliable (multiple notifications rather than missing notifications IIRC), so it was turned off. Nobody has worked on it since so clearly it isn't a widely need feature. I think the code is still in place, so if somebody needs it, they can investigate the code and try to fix the issues.
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