diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index e724ee7263..5303523c7b 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -6250,6 +6250,9 @@ David  17 Oct 2012
 
 Charlie 18 Oct 2012
     - MGR: Fix bug which can cause Manager to quit when started in Simple View.
+    - lib: fix unmatched parentheses which confused source file editor.
     
     clientgui/
         sg_TaskPanel.cpp
+    lib/
+        gui_rpc_client_ops.cpp
diff --git a/lib/gui_rpc_client_ops.cpp b/lib/gui_rpc_client_ops.cpp
index 9a60d9653f..7b14111a0b 100644
--- a/lib/gui_rpc_client_ops.cpp
+++ b/lib/gui_rpc_client_ops.cpp
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ int RESULT::parse(XML_PARSER& xp) {
 #if 0
         if (xp.match_tag("stderr_out")) {
             char buf[65536];
-            xp.element_contents(("</stderr_out>", buf);
+            xp.element_contents("</stderr_out>", buf);
             stderr_out = buf;
             continue;
         }