* Load color-theme in init.el
@ 2012-07-21 16:12 Patrick Wang
2012-08-14 2:39 ` nathan.leclaire
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From: Patrick Wang @ 2012-07-21 16:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi,
I am using emacs 24.1.1 on Mac OS X Lion. I installed color-theme via emacs package and try to load a color theme in init.el. Therefore I added following lines into my init.el
(require 'color-theme)
(setq color-theme-is-global t)
(color-theme-tty-dark)
However, after I restarted emacs, I got an error message "File error: Cannot open load file, color-theme," and color scheme wasn't changed.
It seems that init.el is evaluated before packages are loaded. If I evaluate init.el using "eval-buffer" after emacs is launched, color-theme can be found and color will be changed.
Can anyone give me a hand? Thanks!
Patrick
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* Re: Load color-theme in init.el
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
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From: nathan.leclaire @ 2012-08-14 2:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Saturday, July 21, 2012 12:12:17 PM UTC-4, Patrick Wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am using emacs 24.1.1 on Mac OS X Lion. I installed color-theme via emacs package and try to load a color theme in init.el. Therefore I added following lines into my init.el
>
>
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> (require 'color-theme)
>
> (setq color-theme-is-global t)
>
> (color-theme-tty-dark)
>
>
>
> However, after I restarted emacs, I got an error message "File error: Cannot open load file, color-theme," and color scheme wasn't changed.
>
>
>
> It seems that init.el is evaluated before packages are loaded. If I evaluate init.el using "eval-buffer" after emacs is launched, color-theme can be found and color will be changed.
>
>
>
> Can anyone give me a hand? Thanks!
>
>
>
>
>
> Patrick
Patrick, did you ever figure out the solution to this problem? I am having the same issue. M - x eval-buffer works great for my .emacs file but it won't load regularly.
Thanks,
Nathan
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* Re: Load color-theme in init.el
2012-08-14 2:39 ` nathan.leclaire
@ 2012-08-14 8:48 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-08-15 0:30 ` Nathan LeClaire
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From: Peter Dyballa @ 2012-08-14 8:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: nathan.leclaire, Patrick Wang; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
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.
--
Greetings
Pete === -Q
==<__/% >>
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* Re: Load color-theme in init.el
2012-08-14 8:48 ` Peter Dyballa
@ 2012-08-15 0:30 ` Nathan LeClaire
2012-08-15 1:23 ` Drew Adams
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From: Nathan LeClaire @ 2012-08-15 0:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Dyballa; +Cc: Patrick Wang, help-gnu-emacs
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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.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete === -Q
> ==<__/% >>
> _____________(_)____@_____________________________
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* RE: Load color-theme in init.el
2012-08-15 0:30 ` Nathan LeClaire
@ 2012-08-15 1:23 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-15 13:26 ` Nathan LeClaire
2012-08-15 20:37 ` Suvayu Ali
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From: Drew Adams @ 2012-08-15 1:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'Nathan LeClaire', 'Peter Dyballa'
Cc: 'Patrick Wang', help-gnu-emacs
> 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.)
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* Re: Load color-theme in init.el
2012-08-15 1:23 ` Drew Adams
@ 2012-08-15 13:26 ` Nathan LeClaire
2012-08-15 14:03 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-15 20:37 ` Suvayu Ali
1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Nathan LeClaire @ 2012-08-15 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs, Patrick Wang
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I see. Thanks for clarifying. In my original e-mail I also forgot to
mention that the advice of Peter Dyballa to use a .emacs for customization
was the correct advice. Thanks Peter. I got the idea to use
~/.emacs/init.el from the Emacs Starter Kit (
https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/ ). Presumably it is no
substitute for .emacs.
Thanks again everyone,
Nathan
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 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.)
>
>
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* RE: Load color-theme in init.el
2012-08-15 13:26 ` Nathan LeClaire
@ 2012-08-15 14:03 ` Drew Adams
0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2012-08-15 14:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'Nathan LeClaire'; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs, 'Patrick Wang'
> I see. Thanks for clarifying. In my original e-mail I
> also forgot to mention that the advice of Peter Dyballa
> to use a .emacs for customization was the correct advice.
> Thanks Peter. I got the idea to use ~/.emacs/init.el...
My advice is to use a separate file, the value of user option `custom-file', for
customizations that are written automatically when you use Customize (e.g., `M-x
customize-option').
That keeps such generated code away from any code that you write in your init
file (~/.emacs). Let Customize fiddle with `custom-file', and keep your init
file for your own fiddlings.
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* Re: Load color-theme in init.el
2012-08-15 1:23 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-15 13:26 ` Nathan LeClaire
@ 2012-08-15 20:37 ` Suvayu Ali
2012-08-15 21:18 ` Drew Adams
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From: Suvayu Ali @ 2012-08-15 20:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams
Cc: help-gnu-emacs, 'Patrick Wang', 'Nathan LeClaire'
Hello Drew,
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:23:02PM -0700, Drew Adams wrote:
> > 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.
>
I believe starting with the following commit:
commit 2faa2c5d69f36c29cdd3b654f4cc9c4b89c81e5a
Author: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
Date: Mon Apr 23 02:04:54 2012 +0800
* faces.el (face-spec-set): Stop supporting deprecated form of
third arg.
color-theme stopped working properly with Emacs 24. I switched to
custom-theme soon after, so I don't know if the situation has changed.
Cheers,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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* RE: Load color-theme in init.el
2012-08-15 20:37 ` Suvayu Ali
@ 2012-08-15 21:18 ` Drew Adams
0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2012-08-15 21:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'Suvayu Ali'
Cc: help-gnu-emacs, 'Patrick Wang', 'Nathan LeClaire'
> > > 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.
>
> I believe starting with the following commit:
>
> commit 2faa2c5d69f36c29cdd3b654f4cc9c4b89c81e5a
> Author: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon Apr 23 02:04:54 2012 +0800
> * faces.el (face-spec-set): Stop supporting deprecated
> form of third arg.
>
> color-theme stopped working properly with Emacs 24. I switched to
> custom-theme soon after, so I don't know if the situation has changed.
OK, good to know, I guess. You are reporting that color-theme.el no longer
works with GNU Emacs. Sorry to hear that. I was reporting only that (a) GNU
Emacs cannot deprecate color-theme.el (by definition) and (b) color-theme.el is
still available.
But it should be straightforward to update color-theme.el to no longer use
`face-spec-set' (said without bothering to look at the code), should anyone want
to do that. It should be enough to use `face-set-attribute' (and perhaps
`face-spec-chooose'), to replace using `face-spec-set'.
Of course, there is no guarantee that with just that change color-theme.el will
work with Emacs 24.
On n'arrete pas le progres...
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