> Geany does not help me to access those files quickly. I have to think which 
> ones are affected and open them manually.

Agreed, but in fact Geany does not know about those files either, it only 
regularly tests the current file.  This is to reduce the cost of regularly 
`stat`ing lots of files which can be an expensive operation, especially if the 
user has many files open, and/or if files are on remote servers.  And some 
users have a LOT of files open, and as home file servers get cheaper more use 
"remote" servers.

There was an attempt to use the GIO file monitoring which may have been able to 
handle more files efficiently, but it proved to be unreliable, triggering 
multiple times and causing the infobar to come back repeatedly.  This may not 
neccessarily be GIOs fault since the underlying OS `inotify` interface notes 
the possibility of missing or repeated events.  This code is still in the Geany 
source but `#if`ed out, anybody is welcome to try to sort it out.

> it would be great to put the deleted files up front,

Even if monitoring worked, its considered bad UI design to reorder a users 
tabs.  Other methods of indication could be used to allow the user to find such 
files quickly.

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