When editing files on slow network filesystems, nedit ofen pauses (due to stat() calls) - how to disable?

[TK Soh]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Eddy De Greef
<eddy_de_greef at scarlet.be> wrote:
> I'm afraid the only option is to modify the source code.
> [CheckForChangesToFile() - source/file.c]
> Even if you disable the warnings, NEdit still uses stat() to monitor the
> file attributes (e.g. to update the title when the file is made read-only
> externally).

I have not looked into the code, but can't the checking be done in a
way that it doesn't 'tie up' nedit.