Re: Suite of Color Themes for console

[Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>]

* Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> [141023 15:43]:
> Jacob Gerlach <jacobgerlach@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I believe there is some important distinction between custom themes and
> > color themes (although I can't recall what it is). My setup is below
> > (collected from various sources like the wiki - I don't claim any credit).
> > I think this is the "wrapper" you're looking for.
> >
> >   (add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path
> >                (file-name-as-directory
> > "/home/jacob/.emacs.d/replace-colorthemes"))
> >
> >   ;; Cycle through this set of themes
> >   (setq my-themes '(robin-hood charcoal-black classic dark-blue desert))
> >
> >   (setq my-cur-theme nil)
> >   (defun cycle-my-theme ()
> >     "Cycle through a list of themes, my-themes"
> >     (interactive)
> >     (when my-cur-theme
> >       (disable-theme my-cur-theme)
> >       (setq my-themes (append my-themes (list my-cur-theme))))
> >     (setq my-cur-theme (pop my-themes))
> >     (load-theme my-cur-theme t))
> >
> >   ;; Switch to the first theme in the list above
> >   (cycle-my-theme)
> >   (global-set-key (kbd "C-t") 'cycle-my-theme)
> >
> > The first theme in "my-themes" will be loaded on startup, and you can bind
> > cycling (as I have to C-t) to make it quick and easy.
> 
> Thanks for this Jacob, it is very useful. But I do wonder if it could be
> "tweaked" such that it displays the name of the theme in that black bar
> at the top of emacs just before it gets onto the system-bar of the
> desktop? Also, I've got a lot of themes from ELPA, which on this box is
> at "/home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/elpa" which I would dearly love to use,
> like this, and it works!
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>  (add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path
>                (file-name-as-directory
> 				"/home/boudiccas/git/replace-colorthemes"))
> (add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "/home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/themes")
> (add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "/home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/elpa")
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> 
> Any ideas please?
> 
> Thanks
> Sharon.
  What I would do (bearing in mind my limited knowledge of emacs and
  the fact that I prefer console mode) is have a variable that
  keeps track of the current theme - in my coded solution that
  would be 'tj-current-theme and include that variable in
  mode-line-format. That should be easy but also redundant as it
  would appear in every window.

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