On Sat, Jul 14 2012, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote: > I think this is just a sharp corner in customize and there's notmuch > we can do about it. I believe the "proper" way to enter the newline > directly in customize is to hit C-q C-j (same way you get a raw > newline in any other buffer). Given that I wouldn't expect anyone to > guess that, though, we could mention this in the defcustom's > docstring. Ah. C-q C-j definitely does it. Thanks, Austin. I'll follow up with a patch that modifies the doc string, which can maybe help make things clearer for the uninitiated. jamie.