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Subject: Re: Why is custom--inhibit-theme-enable not t by default?
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  > I think themes are special in this regard: loading a theme activates
  > it.

Do we really want loading the file to activate the theme?

We could instead have a command to select a theme, which autoloads
the theme if necessary.

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