On Thursday, 14 Sep 2017 at 16:02, Loris Bennett wrote:
> But should this kind of ordering dependency happen?  Or should my
> Customize block just be at the beginning of my .emacs rather than at the
> end?

I make sure my customizations are loaded before anything else.  I have
my customizations in a separate file and "(load custom-file)" as one of
the first things in my Emacs init.  Not the first as such as I set the
load-path to point to the versions of packages I am using that may
conflict with built-in ones in Emacs.

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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 26.0.50, Org release_9.0.10-729-gb792e2