bug#57639: [PATCH] Add new command 'toggle-theme'

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>> There probably is not automatic way to resolve this issue, but perhaps
>>> it might be enough to remind all the external theme maintainers to
>>> remove these snippets before updating the files in emacs.git.
>>
>> That would be inconvenient to have to have different versions in Emacs
>> and on ELPA(s).
>
> Functionally they wouldn't differ from one another, the only difference
> would be that the core packages wouldn't include the code necessary to
> bootstrap a theme as a package.
>
>> As a gross hack, we could add a new file in etc/themes that has these
>> `put' statements and then load that in Emacs.  But...  that's kinda
>> gross, so if somebody has a better idea, that's be nice.
>
> If there were a way to generate "autoloaded" code as a side effect of
> byte compilation or something, then deftheme would take care of that.
> But I don't know enough about the bootstrapping process to say how
> feasible that is or not.

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