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.  Instead you can load color themes with M - x load-theme, which
provides a bunch of choices.  I enjoy wombat, myself.  I'm using Emacs 24
for OS X.

Cheers,

Nathan

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:

>
> Am 14.08.2012 um 04:39 schrieb nathan.leclaire:
>
> >> It seems that init.el is evaluated before packages are loaded.
>
> What is this file "init.el"? Is it the (C-h v) site-run-file? If so, then
> it's the wrong place for the purpose of setting a colour theme. It might be
> OK to load here the Elisp code to handle colour themes, i.e., (require
> 'color-theme).
>
>         The run-time load order is: 1. file described in
>         this variable, if non-nil; 2. `~/.emacs'; 3. `default.el'.
>
> When you look up the documentation of site-run-file you'll find some more
> hints.
>
> The file "~/.emacs" is named by the variable user-init-file.
>
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