Re: a better face for your eyes

["Gary Weselle" <weselle_g@hotmain.com>]

"Thien-Thi Nguyen" <ttn@glug.org> wrote in message
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> "Gary Weselle" <weselle_g@hotmain.com> writes:
>
> > Any body with a better solution.
>
> there are many "themes" packages, some quite fancy.  below is a simple
> one.  i load this on startup, and call `set-theme' from ~/.emacs, which
> is early enough to make the mysterious (to me) font-lock machinery DTRT
> for things like `font-lock-function-face', etc.  back when i was loading
> it later in the session, sometimes font-lock would make disturbing color
> choices.
>
> thi
>
> _________________________________________________
> ;;; set-theme.el
> ;;;
> ;;; Rel:v-1-55
> ;;;
> ;;; Copyright (C) 2000,2002,2003,2004,2006 Thien-Thi Nguyen
> ;;; This file is part of ttn's personal elisp library, released under GNU
> ;;; GPL with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  See the file COPYING for details.
> ;;;
> ;;; Description: Select an appearance configuration.
>
> (defvar themes '(;;name       bg    fg        m-fg    m-bg (optional)
>                  (classic-ttn \#a85 black     white   black)
>                  (new-earthy  black sienna    gray30)
>                  (zzzzzzzzzz  black darkgreen black)
>                  (caffeine    black yellow    white)
>                  (polar       white black     white   black)
>                  (dream       black cyan      white   blue)
>                  (fuori-fuso  black green     magenta)
>                  (vt220       black goldenrod gray30))
>   "List w/ elements of form:
>  \(NAME BACKGROUND FOREGROUND MODELINE-FOREGROUND [MODELINE-BACKGROUND]\)
> If MODELINE-BACKGROUND is not specified, it defaults to BACKGROUND.
> All elements are symbols.  Use `\\#RGB' to specify a color using RGB
components.")
>
> ;;;###autoload
> (defun set-theme (name)
>   "Select appearance configuration NAME.  (See variable `themes'.)"
>   (interactive (list (completing-read "Theme: "
>                                       (mapcar 'list
>                                               (mapcar 'symbol-name
>                                                       (mapcar 'car
>                                                               themes)))
>                                       nil       ;;; predicate
>                                       t)))      ;;; require-match
>   (when (symbolp name)
>     (setq name (symbol-name name)))
>   (if (string= "" name)
>       (message "(%d themes, none chosen)"
>                (and
>                 (describe-variable 'themes)
>                 (length themes)))
>     (apply (lambda (bg fg m-fg &optional m-bg)
>              (set-face-foreground 'default fg)
>              (set-face-background 'default bg)
>              (let ((v [set-face-background set-face-foreground])
>                    (i (if (face-inverse-video-p 'mode-line) 0 1)))
>                (funcall (aref v      i)  'mode-line m-fg)
>                (funcall (aref v (- 1 i)) 'mode-line (or m-bg bg))))
>            (mapcar 'symbol-name
>                    (cdr (assq (intern name) themes))))))
>
> (provide 'set-theme)
>
> ;;; set-theme.el ends here

is there a web site with lots of screenshots of different themes and their
corresponding .el(s)