Dear Bug Team! XEmacs+JDE (as opposed to, say, JBuilder) project management looks like it would scale to what I need - if it only worked correctly (and if I knew how to use it, of course, but that's hardly a bug report :-) ). As far as I understand, I can have a hierarchy of project files (prj.el) and I should use XEmacs customize to update them. But most of the time, when I save the project, it won't load back again because it has unbalanced parenthesis - I have to manually edit it... As a concrete example, I started xemacs with -vanilla (so that my existing customizations don't interfere with the demonstration) and opened a Java file (C:\scratch\test\Test.java). I created a new project (with menu command JDE|Project|Project File|Create New) in c:\scratch . The created file looks valid: === prj.el === (jde-project-file-version "1.0") (jde-set-variables) === end prj.el === Then I run JDE|Project|Options|General and got a customization buffer; I changed classpath (added c:/classes) and pressed Set (but not Save). I switched back to the Test.java buffer and run jde-save-project (from the documentation, it seems this is the recommended way to manage projects - takes some getting used to, but I suppose what I want really isn't simple...). XEmacs visited c:\scratch\prj.el , but the buffer it created was === prj.el === (jde-project-file-version "1.0") (jde-set-variables '(jde-global-classpath (quote ("c:/classes")))(jde-set-variables === end prj.el === which will obviously fail to parse... The correct file should apparently be === prj.el === (jde-project-file-version "1.0") (jde-set-variables '(jde-global-classpath (quote ("c:/classes")))) === end prj.el === Bye Vasek ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- OS version: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] OS: Windows_NT XEmacs 21.4.6 \"Common Lisp (Windows [1])\" configured for `i586-pc-win32'. Building XEmacs in \"f:\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.4-release\\nt\". Using compiler \"cl -nologo -W3 -O2 -G5 -ML\". Installing XEmacs in \"c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\XEmacs-21.4.6\". Package path is \"~\\.xemacs;;c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\site-packages;c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages\". Compiling in support for Microsoft Windows native GUI. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for GIF images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. 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Flushed completion cache. Test.java: [########################################################] ... done Creating customization buffer...done Creating customization setup... Creating group... done Creating group state... Creating group magic... Creating group... Loading jde-ant...done Loading jde-ant... Creating customization items... Creating customization buttons... Creating customization buffer... Wrote c:\scratch\prj.el Wrote c:\scratch\prj.el Loading semantic-el...done Loading semantic-el... (New file)