During my time working with emacs I have tried many themes to find my 'ideal theme', which sometimes seems to change almost everyday. Currently, it is "firebelly", except it has several shortcomings - * when you highlight text, it is unreadable due to it being the same colour as the background, so it is very hard to highlight anything. * TODO items with *** are very indistinct, so faded that it is almost the same colour as the background. * anything that is commented out is extremely dim and faded, and difficult to read. I use the following key-bindings to help in choosing and disabling a theme - (global-set-key (kbd "") 'disable-theme) (global-set-key (kbd "") 'load-theme) How then can I use this theme with its shortcomings? Is there a better theme with similar properties? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, emacs 24.3.1