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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Nathan LeClaire'" <nathan.leclaire@gmail.com>,
	"'Peter Dyballa'" <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>
Cc: 'Patrick Wang' <p@patrickz.net>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Load color-theme in init.el
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:23:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AB9E03DB37E54EA889639735E44F3F4B@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPW5MvAttxTk0ZJVO-Y1ve-H03VciZBC7CYWv5NpU0eWiLbhFw@mail.gmail.com>

> Hi guys, thanks for replying.  If anyone out there is still
> searching, I finally figured out that apparently in Emacs 24
> color-theme is (slightly?) deprecated.

No, color-theme is not at all deprecated.  It has never been part of GNU Emacs,
so GNU Emacs cannot deprecate it.  It is a third-party library, color-theme.el,
and it is still available AFAIK.

What is unfortunate is that GNU Emacs adopted a name, "custom theme", that is so
close to "color theme", which already has a certain following.

Every few weeks someone posts here with questions that involve confusion between
the two.

(Emacs has had "custom themes" for a long time, but until Emacs 24 they had
nothing to do with colors (as in "color theme").  It is the combination of Emacs
24 adopting something similar to what color-theme.el offers plus its inclusion
of that new feature in the grab bag called "custom themes" that seems to lead to
the confusion.)




  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-15  1:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-21 16:12 Load color-theme in init.el Patrick Wang
2012-08-14  2:39 ` nathan.leclaire
2012-08-14  8:48   ` Peter Dyballa
2012-08-15  0:30     ` Nathan LeClaire
2012-08-15  1:23       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-08-15 13:26         ` Nathan LeClaire
2012-08-15 14:03           ` Drew Adams
2012-08-15 20:37         ` Suvayu Ali
2012-08-15 21:18           ` Drew Adams

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