From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sharon Kimble Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: customising a theme? Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 21:41:19 +0100 Message-ID: <87ioqel1qo.fsf@talktalk.net> References: <87tx9yj2fx.fsf@talktalk.net> <87tx9yd0e6.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397335323 25500 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2014 20:42:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 20:42:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 12 22:41:58 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 1WZ4kP-00020v-Nt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 22:41:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35636 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WZ4kP-0004tc-AH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 16:41:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60100) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WZ4k7-0004sR-DI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 16:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WZ4jy-0002Q3-El for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 16:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from out1.ip04ir2.opaltelecom.net ([62.24.128.240]:39090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WZ4jy-0002Pn-4i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 16:41:30 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApAGAKukSVNcFJeH/2dsb2JhbABZgwY7gxXAa4EYF3SCJQEBAQECAVYjBQsIAyElDwEEJSQTh2gDCQwJxAIihmUWiTCERhEBUAeEOASrJIMyPIE1 X-IPAS-Result: ApAGAKukSVNcFJeH/2dsb2JhbABZgwY7gxXAa4EYF3SCJQEBAQECAVYjBQsIAyElDwEEJSQTh2gDCQwJxAIihmUWiTCERhEBUAeEOASrJIMyPIE1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,848,1389744000"; d="asc'?scan'208";a="443128368" Original-Received: from host-92-20-151-135.as13285.net (HELO london) ([92.20.151.135]) by out1.ip04ir2.opaltelecom.net with ESMTP; 12 Apr 2014 21:41:28 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87tx9yd0e6.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sat, 12 Apr 2014 17:37:37 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 62.24.128.240 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:97110 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Michael Heerdegen writes: > Hi Sharon, > > Sharon> During my time working with emacs I have tried many themes > Sharon> to find my 'ideal theme', which sometimes seems to change > Sharon> almost everyday. Currently, it is "firebelly", except it has > Sharon> several shortcomings - > > Same for me. I'm also stuck to it since it appeared in Melpa. I'm using emacs 24.4.50.4 the development version and one of the themes that has come with it is 'tsdh-dark-theme'. This is similar to firebelly but bet= ter :) If you want a copy Michael, let me know and I'll email a copy to you.=20 > > Sharon> * when you highlight text, it is unreadable due to it being > Sharon> the same colour as the background, so it is very hard to > Sharon> highlight anything. * TODO items with *** are very > Sharon> indistinct, so faded that it is almost the same colour as > Sharon> the background. * anything that is commented out is > Sharon> extremely dim and faded, and difficult to read. > > Sharon> I use the following key-bindings to help in choosing and > Sharon> disabling a theme - (global-set-key (kbd "") > Sharon> 'disable-theme) (global-set-key (kbd "") 'load-theme) > > Sharon> How then can I use this theme with its shortcomings? Is > Sharon> there a better theme with similar properties? > > The readability much depends on your monitor. For me, everything is > readable, although I find it irritating that variables are even "more > faded" than comments. My monitor is very good, although I've never considered it when choosing a "ideal theme"! > > Anyway, why don't you just contact the author (the best way would > probably be an github issue)? > > About customizing: AFAICT you can't use the customize interface to > customize any custom theme (which makes sense since these themes are > already sets of customizations). > > But the defining files are just normal elisp files - in our case, > "firebelly-theme.el". You can just edit it - it's very easy to read - > or better make your own copy of the theme and put it somewhere in your > `load-path'. > I've always found it difficult to correlate the failings of my current theme to the positioning in the 'foobar-theme.el'. But for me now, "tsdh-dark-theme.el" fits the bill as my ideal theme! Sharon. =2D-=20 A taste of linux =3D http://www.sharons.org.uk my git repo =3D https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots TGmeds =3D http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, emacs 24.3.1 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTSaTwAAoJEDaBgBkK+INb0HsP+wYE8/tCmfFnP83HKWPg+oIn acJ3wuZq6yrohpmU+FbL1bX5pEWLKXM4QgIIz2Xnd1JX5wn/Mvt7n/LzNkHZbo7V RAS7mg4jf2PcLJaMN62cargRo+DBCDThn0OVZFb1XoYR6k4xXqYoUezd5FmKqKFE tC3A+eSNFDkeYWWQWsMQtOXmE7uw9ENjbb1acR4HAJIUbo0pVXR5BdQ4ji+ahuap lKArR42zMtDiiLNuk4yg7FUWxnntdBi2YDIVZlxwl4NwJHlRPu2vz0oR0uyqn2fb zWYImkRGZGEzdXuzzNgFVmbGWDdknk1xnUgFgM1FBbjksAiMddpl8qAznVGFjrI/ a+BqRxq/HS/9LNutMh8vxruQdV9MYC2eS67jyHFos+4l82PXM958SERfhdrEVeMI WXXxWtoIiYvGn3gIDp3sY2cDlhyY0lvGN23mLCVr1bbVGb3U/9kM2W8OG6Z6tz51 Kq866DspIl/hOtr8MnTrgwFfv08lM6wlcAjKZ3cNCvcdLJeooQewAY86xVPc38kj 5IIQArmQSj321USw5aWLOkcoCHYbxDO/KxIu9hsCiwNVHfXoL7qARtqaOjlnuSyM JWN8bdDbWhupyNSVSpJdW6eiUE/SlQ3C9JVZTwYuhwbN4Rlo1B3h56bDDxeFjJp4 YoakYb05L44oz7FTe+m+ =bSsb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--