Plug ins in MC 2.6b1

[Robert Brenstein]

I finally got to checking out the 2.6b1. A few issues:

The warning about mismatch of engine and mctools should show up 
before plugins are handled and possibly offer an option to quit right 
away.

When I get an error opening plugins, the execution stops and I see 
the menu of Richard's plugins, none being operational of course. 
Richard, you need to empty the menu for distribution. Further, the 
script handling plugins should first build the menu before trying to 
open or start using any plugins. And the opening/activating should 
trap errors allowing it to skip the buggy ones and finish the cycle, 
then report problems. As it is, I get an error from ide but have no 
clue which plugin causes it.

Actually, after a little playing, it seems that I get error reported 
for the following line for ANY plugin:

  if the cRevLoadInfo["load"] of stack tStackFile = "startup" then 
open stack tStackFile

I am not sure what the error really is because of the other known 
problem with error reporting, but it seems the error is "can't find 
stack".

I'd suggest to distribute the read-me file in SimpleText rather than 
Tex-Edit format. An old version of Tex-Edit I happened to have 
burried somewhere on my disk uses some hand-writing type font in 
small size, making the text almost ilegable.

And I think that the instructions should explicitely state which 
version of Rev a given MC IDE needs.

Robert Brenstein