From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Face color changes Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:38:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87pt0truiz.fsf@confusibombus.emacswiki.org> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104349192 23500 80.91.229.6 (29 Dec 2004 19:39:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:39:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 29 20:39:45 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cjjfd-0006Rx-00 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:39:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CjjqX-00073v-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:51:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CjjqN-00073T-0O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:50:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CjjqL-00072u-JK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:50:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CjjqL-00072S-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:50:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [24.58.181.52] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cjje8-0008Pu-4T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:38:12 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:38:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: <87pt0truiz.fsf@confusibombus.emacswiki.org> (message from Alex Schroeder on Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:31:00 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31584 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31584 We have custom themes, but as far as I know, nobody has ever used them .... I lose track of which themes are which and what I have already set in my .emacs, so I do not use them. If a theme kept a history of the user's current set up -- everything -- and then of two or three new ones, so the user could shift safely and try out things, perhaps themes would be more often used. Put another way, one column of the `visual user's theme interface' would be what he has in a current .emacs. Other columns could provide defaults for light, medium, dark visual on X, similar on ttys of various types, and several audio (e.g. use UK voices, French accent for English... etc). Themes should do more than color -- essentially, they simply write new .emacs files, but with different names. But as a beginning, a theme might do just colors. (I use `list-faces-display' and `customize' because I do not know anything about colors and like to see them. Then I put them into my .emacs file in one of my `custom-set-faces' expressions.) -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc