From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Colourful display? [was Re: mail-yank-original problem] Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 22:12:46 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87bnsuibep.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87sim867jm.fsf@debian.uxu> <87vbr48bhv.fsf_-_@skimble.plus.com> <87mwcgqd6m.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405196134 15297 80.91.229.3 (12 Jul 2014 20:15:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 12 22:15:29 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X63hd-0004E3-K3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 22:15:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50255 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X63ha-0002O3-Hq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:15:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 70 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:4a8nywJ3jUqJuoro0N6BtldOIZs= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206390 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98662 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Sharon Kimble writes: > >> How do you get your display so colourful please? >> What theme are you using in the screenshot please? > > Ho-ho-ho, "theme"! :) :) No, those colors and > everything are setup face-by-face, > variable-by-variable. Make it work, by outworking the > opposition... When I first read that ("theme"), I thought it was bizarre because it was so far from how it was, just installing or picking a theme. Come to think of it, my configuration could just as well be put in a `progn' and executed once, I suppose. That would make it a theme. Are there Gnus (and/or Emacs) themes around? Mine should be called the CRT theme. Either that, or "Mindfullness", like the tattoo of the Assassins, the Persian order that was put down in the 13th century by the Mongols. It has been the theme of my work in this project... By the way, it is no coincidence that a girl was the first ever to be interested in this. I once read a book with material on Pac-Man (the Japanese game, not Filipino fighter). When they made that game they did the monsters in different colors, just so it would possibly attract some female fighters! I don't know if it worked, though (?). I actually don't know why Emacs is so conservative color-wise. Colors are helpful (productive), but they also make you feel good, so you get even more productive. It is not coincidence that children are afraid of the dark, that people wear black at funerals, and that girls put red on their lips and blue over their eyes. The emotional response to black is negative, and to the lack of colors - indifference... Just do it as the kids and girls like it, it'll be the right way. Example - the buffer menu: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/buffer_menu.png Compare that to: (dired "~") Why do dired look so dull? A more colorful Emacs would be great PR. Colors should be just like font-lock in a programming mode. But... sometimes you have to stretch your imagination. Whenever there is a spare color, and nothing sensible (that can be formulated), it is better to just put it to use. Colors are a help to the intellect but they are very emotional at the same time. Best if they make sense but still good just to have. Oh, and yes. In the previous message on this, I forgot to include the mode line with the faces. Literally makes it or breaks it. '(mode-line ((t (:foreground "white" :background "blue" :bold t)))) '(mode-line-inactive ((t (:foreground "white" :background "red" :bold t)))) -- underground experts united