file updates after the first one are not detected when using gedit

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reported on Linux Mint, reproduced on Ubuntu

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rebuilt binary and now everything seems to work fine

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weird, bug appeared again, suspecting a problem with fs.watch and Linux as the bug does not appear on Windows 10

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I did some more testing and I was only able to reproduce the bug using gedit on Ubuntu 17.10. The issue appeared both when I opened the file in gedit first and then in MarkdownFox and the other way round.
I was not able to reproduce the issue with nano, Visual Studio Code or Atom (all also on Ubuntu 17.10).
A possible cause for the issue could be that gedit handles file saving different than the other editors and maybe removes the old file and saves a new one. I imagine such behaviour could cause problems with the file's inode and Node's fs.watch (see docs). Unfortunately I have no idea how to fix this except using the more inefficient fs.watchFile and I don't want to do that.

TL;DR: Don't know how to fix this issue that seems to be specific for gedit. Help appreciated.