Re: Why do themes stack?

[torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)]

Thanks for the snippet; that's useful. 

I guess I have yet to imagine someone who wants to mix their paints manually, so to speak, rather than just putting them in a bottle (making a custom theme). 

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>
>> Why is it implemented this way? Does anyone out there actually gain
>> utility from theme stacking? Or am I doing something wrong? I would
>> think the simpler implementation would simply to have "load theme"
>> automatically disable the present theme, which is both conceptually
>> and pragmatically easier. But the manual doesn't seem to mention much
>> about themes, so I haven't found an explanation (or possible use) for
>> this stacking implementation.
>
> Some people use it for overlaying themes on top of the default theme,
> e.g. for different.
>
> You could just do something like this, I guess:
>
> (defun my/load-theme ()
>        "call load-theme, but disable all themes first"
>        (interactive)
>        (call-interactively 'load-theme)
>        (mapc 'disable-theme (cdr-safe custom-enabled-themes)))