And on two non-vanilla invocations of mine it’s non-nil. These seem like bugs: (object-plist nil) => (custom-group ((vm-coding-system-priorities custom-variable) (vm-mime-ucs-list custom-variable) (view-mode-line-string custom-variable))) (object-plist nil) => (custom-group ((view-mode-line-string custom-variable))) -- Santa Maradona, priez pour moi!