Re: Custom themes

[Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>]

On 2010-10-11 07:15, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Just a heads-up: I've mentioned before that I'd like to include some
> easy way for newbies to choose a different color scheme, similar to what
> color-theme.el does.  However, instead of including color-theme.el, I'm
> writing an independent implementation.  (I haven't been able to get in
> contact with the color-theme.el maintainer, and anyway there are just
> too many contributors to color-theme.el to track down for assignment.)
> This code will be based on the existing Custom theme code, so most of
> the heavy lifting has been done.
>
> Emacs looks for Custom themes in .emacs.d and the load path; a theme
> named "foo" is looked for in foo-theme.el.  I'm currently not sure
> whether the default selection of themes distributed with Emacs should be
> in a subdirectory in etc/, or in lisp/.
>
> Note, also, that because the package manager adds to the load-path, it
> is possible to distribute Custom themes, or collections of themes, as
> packages, which is nice.
>
>

Mr Yidong, I just wanted to say how happy I reading this! I've been 
using color-theme but I was worried that it appeared to be abandonware, 
more or less, and I wanted something official already included. Thank you!

- Eric Lilja