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On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Edward Welbourne wrote:

> new customizations will always go at the end of the
> file: if I want some elisp to be run after *everything* that customize
> controls (e.g. if I want it to be the last thing my ~/.emacs does),
> I'm going to have to move that elisp each time I customize anything
> new

That's why startup.el defines a few hooks.  Code that needs to be run at 
specific moments in the initialization phase should use those hooks 
rather than depend on its place in ~/.emacs.