From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is custom--inhibit-theme-enable not t by default?
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:47:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874li63iit.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf485ec3-941a-4bb0-8f6e-25525a740431@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:54:20 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > > I think themes are special in this regard: loading a theme activates
>> > > it.
>> >
>> > Why did we do it that way?
>>
>> History, I guess. AFAIR, it always has been that way. Maybe we did
>> it for compatibility with themes that were available outside of Emacs
>> before Emacs supported themes?
>
> No, not if you mean color themes (`color-theme.el'). Loading
> them does _not_ activate them. There are explicit functions
> for installing a color theme and invoking (activating) it.
>
> (And unlike the case for custom themes, you can undo the
> application of a color theme.)
Doesn't the command disable-theme undo the application of a custom
theme?
--
Basil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-13 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-12 4:14 Why is custom--inhibit-theme-enable not t by default? dancol
2018-06-12 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-12 15:42 ` dancol
2018-06-12 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83vaao3qrn.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-06-12 19:54 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-13 13:47 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2018-06-13 14:22 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-13 16:55 ` Disabling custom themes (was: Why is custom--inhibit-theme-enable not t by default?) Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-13 17:16 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-13 17:21 ` Disabling custom themes Eric Abrahamsen
2018-06-13 17:30 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-14 2:34 ` Why is custom--inhibit-theme-enable not t by default? Richard Stallman
2018-06-14 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-14 14:21 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-14 18:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-14 18:16 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-14 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-14 18:41 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-14 20:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-13 14:01 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-17 21:31 ` Andy Moreton
2018-06-18 14:07 ` Andy Moreton
2018-06-19 14:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-12 18:24 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-13 2:16 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-13 13:56 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
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