Editfiles error messages

[Chip Seraphine]

When I screw up in editfiles, I get messages like this:

cuffs: File formats did not completely match in ReplaceLinesMatchingField
cuffs: while editing /var/cfengine/proxy/crontab.cfadmin

If I've made a modest amount of edits recently, this is easy to track 
down. Unfortunately, after a wholesale rewrite of a file this can be a 
real bear. Can we get these messages to include some handy stuff like 
what config file and line number is throwing the error? Rerunning 
cfagent in heightened verbosity isn't always a good option (I can't run 
cfagent on certain production machines at certain times of the day), so 
it would be useful to get more info from the initial error message. I 
could just come in in the morning, read the errors, and fix 'em up....

Looking in item-ext.c (where this error is from), I don't really see how 
this could be easily done without adding a bunch of globals and other 
such badness.   Any C wizards out there with a good idea on how to 
improve these messages?


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Chip Seraphine
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