Error: Nedit 5.5 closes on File Open

[Scott Tringali]

Scotland O. Clark wrote:

> Hi. I'm new to the list, but I'm having an issue:
> 
> I'm running Kubuntu 7.04.  I downloaded Nedit 5.5 (executable) from the 
> website mirror and installed it into /usr/local/bin. When I run Nedit, 
> if I use any menu command or keyboard shortcut that would bring up a 
> dialog box (Open [Ctrl-O], for instance), Nedit closes and disappears.  
> Just goes away. No error messages, no anything.  When I run it again, 
> it's fine, until I try to open a file or other dialog (...) operations.
> I downloaded a copy of 5.4 to see if it was a version problem, but 5.4 
> does the exact same thing; and I tried downloading another copy of 5.5 
> from a different mirror (and the .bz2 instead of the .gz) to see if I 
> just got a bad copy.  No; same result.

This might be one of two newish problems.  Do either of these help?

   env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 nedit

or:

   env LANG=C nedit