I just installed Mandrake 8.1 and the latest MC snapshot (friday). Most menu
entries (like insert Changelog) didn't work. A temporary file was created
but no changes got to the edited file.
The menu entry to indent C code did work and afterwards all others did work
too. cooledit.error was
Hello, David!
#ifdef _EDIT_C
char *edit_init_error_msg = NULL;
#else /* ! _EDIT_C */
extern char *edit_init_error_msg;
#endif /* ! _EDIT_C */
Fixed. It turned out that there was a genuine bug behind this mess.
Some errors were not