Nedit uses tmpnam for creating temporary filenames. The file is then opened with fopen --> tmprace OpenBSD seems to have a patch for this (replace tmpnam/fopen with mkstemp/fdopen) Also I found this little info about from nedit mailinglist archive: http://www.nedit.org/archives/develop/2001-Feb/0391.html (Short summary: nedit's incremental save and backup files (.bck) are created in cwd and nedit follows symlinks.)
Errata released.