Does anyone know why custom-theme-set-variables (custom-set-variables) eval's its argument if now is t or if it has a default value. "The arguments should be a list where each entry has the form: (SYMBOL VALUE [NOW [REQUEST [COMMENT]]]) The unevaluated VALUE is stored as the saved value for SYMBOL. If NOW is present and non-nil, VALUE is also evaluated and bound as the default value for the SYMBOL." I don't see how this can possibly be what you want. For instance: (custom-set-variables '(jde-global-classpath ("one" "two"))) fails because ("one" "two") is evalled. Indeed aren't the docs wrong as well - &rest args automatically turns the arguments into a list. So shouldn't it actually say "each argument has the form:" The FSF code is similarly (IMO) broken. Just trying to understand how I must set variables of this tye. Thanks andy