Reloading a file that was edited in another editor does not work. about file-watcher HOT 2 CLOSED

I'll download PyCharm and try to reproduce this.

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Okay from what I see this is PyCharm's doing. On save, it actually renames the current file to {filename}___jb_old___, saves as the new file name, then deletes the ___jb_old___ file. It does this even when file-watcher is disabled (you can see it if you make changes to a file in Atom but don't save, then modify the file in PyCharm)

Looking at the PyCharm docs you can actually turn this behaviour off:

Safe Write

If this check box is selected, a changed file is first saved in a temporary file. If the save operation succeeds, the file being saved is replaced with the saved file. (Technically, the original file is deleted and the temporary file is renamed.)
Also, the ownership of such file changes.

As such I don't think this is something that I will fix since it is specific to PyCharm (and possibly other Jetbrains IDEs) but they already offer a workaround.

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