Re: "clean" starting point for custom-theme-set-faces

[Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:41:05 UTC+1, Sam Halliday  wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 11:00:54 UTC+1, Sam Halliday  wrote:
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> > I'm creating a custom colour theme for emacs inspired by IntelliJ's Darcula. Work in progress here:
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> >   https://github.com/fommil/unix/blob/master/.emacs.d/lisp/Darkula-theme.el
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> I have a third question that I'd also like help with regarding this theme.
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> It would appear that when I load my custom theme (above) with
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>   (add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path (concat user-emacs-directory "lisp"))
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>   (load-theme 'Darkula t)
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> not everything is set correctly. In particular (as one example), the font-lock-builtin-face (used extensively in the theme file itself) is not picking up the foreground defined in my theme.
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> However, if I open up the theme file and do a `C-x C-e` on the `custom-theme-set-faces` block, the theme works perfectly as intended as is evident by the colours in that file changing immediately.
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> Am I doing something wrong or missing something out?
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> Sam

NOTE: https://github.com/alezost/alect-themes/#emacs-2431-and-earlier mentioned above seems to have fixed the problem I was having.