Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.1.0)
Installed from:    compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.19-16mdkcustom

I'm an NEdit developer and the NEdit.ad file that you supply with KDE has been causing many bug reports for us.  (e.g. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=561659&group_id=11005&atid=111005) There are two main problems that I am aware of.

1.  By setting "nedit*shell: /bin/sh" you break several of the entries on our shell menu.  This resource is only meant to be set by those who know what they're getting into and should not be set without the user's awareness.

2.  It appears that in some setups (Redhat 8.0 seems problematic) the FONTLIST macro is not expanded, leading to bad fonts and the error: 
Cannot convert string "FONTLIST" to type FontStruct

If run as root, the error is: 
Cannot convert string "%s" to type %s

I'm not sure if this is a distro problem or a KDE problem, but Nedit.ad is the only file that uses FONTLIST and there have been no reports of similar problems with BACKGROUND or any other krdb macro.