Re: Face color changes

["Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>]

   We have custom themes, but as far as I know, nobody has ever used
   them ....

As I said, I lose track of which themes are which.  It would be great
for a visual theme user interface to show various faces side by side
(obviously, you cannot show too many on an 80 char wide window).

Right now, in this instance of Emacs, `list-faces-display' shows 136
faces.  `emacs -Q' lists only 33.  136 are too many for me to
remember.  Even 33 are too many.  (I have no idea how to deal with
audio `faces', i.e., with `audio personalities'; perhaps the Emacspeak
people could help.)

Perhaps themes would be more often used 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 from one to another.

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, a theme should write
a new .emacs file, but with a different name.  But as a beginning, a
theme might do just colors.

(For faces' customization, I use `list-faces-display' and `customize'
because I do not know anything about colors and like to see them.
Weights do not work on my main display.  Then I let customize "Save
for Future Sessions" change the last of the `custom-set-faces'
expressions in my .emacs file.)

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