.Xdefaults ignored?

[John Klingler]

One thing the has annoyed me is there is no visible indication when 
selecting a file, for example in the Load Tags dialog. The background is 
gray. Perhaps it is highlighting with the background color.

I tried putting the following line in ~/.Xdefaults:

nedit*FileSelect*selectColor: yellow

This had no effect. I tried putting it in ~/.nedit, also with no effect. 
I thought perhaps this was the wrong resource. Then I noticed nedit 
ignores whatever I put in ~/.Xdefaults or in ~/.nedit. However, if I put 
it in the command line it works fine:

nedit -xrm "nedit*FileSelect*selectColor: yellow" ~/.Xdefaults

Since there is no app-defaults file I was wondering, is there a nedit 
system file overriding my .Xdefaults or does nedit ignore the file 
altogether?

John