From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Load color-theme in init.el Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:23:02 -0700 Message-ID: References: <6a95b452-a586-45bd-970a-98f2b356669f@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344993807 3840 80.91.229.3 (15 Aug 2012 01:23:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:23:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Patrick Wang' , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "'Nathan LeClaire'" , "'Peter Dyballa'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 03:23:28 2012 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 1T1SKR-0005md-JX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:23:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46488 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1SKQ-0006Oe-92 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:23:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1SKH-0006Hy-UV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:23:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1SKG-0005fb-R8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:23:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:41850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1SKG-0005fN-KJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:23:12 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q7F1N8eF028981 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:23:09 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q7F1N8Iq010668 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:23:08 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt103.oracle.com (abhmt103.oracle.com [141.146.116.55]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q7F1N7uH011958; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.221.239) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:23:07 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Ac16fXU844o/9id1SaCdgc32NqnfPQABkddg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 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:86343 Archived-At: > 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.)