Re: Documentation for custom-file - is not (load custom-file) needed?

[Richard Stallman]

    You are going to save in the last of those files, which are written in
    some random order.  If I understand correctly, with custom-file being
    nil, initsplit is watching .emacs for customizations being written in
    there, to delete them from .emacs and put them in the correct
    (according to the user) files.

initsplit may need to be changed to cope with the new behavior of
Emacs.  That is normal: something that overrides part of Emacs
probably will need to be changed when that part of Emacs changes.

This is not a reason to avoid making useful changes in Emacs.

    The user may load several files with `custom-set-variables' forms to
    add a set of customizations to his .emacs.  Then he just nominally
    saves some option using Custom to make Custom write all the stuff into
    .emacs.  So you save everything in the last file he loaded.

What Emacs would do at present is write all of them into .emacs, which
is probably also not what he wants.  The new behavior won't be any
worse for him than the current behavior.  Therefore, there is no
argument here against the change.