From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nathan LeClaire Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Load color-theme in init.el Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:26:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <6a95b452-a586-45bd-970a-98f2b356669f@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=14dae9340e178aff1b04c74de0e3 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1345037216 16864 80.91.229.3 (15 Aug 2012 13:26:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Patrick Wang To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 15:26:53 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 1T1dcX-0004Sc-J1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:26:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45498 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1dcW-0001sc-GR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:26:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46929) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1dcQ-0001sU-QH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:26:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1dcP-0000Pu-BR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:26:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gg0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:54646) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1dcP-0000Pq-6p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:26:41 -0400 Original-Received: by ggnf4 with SMTP id f4so1961073ggn.0 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:26:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=D3/5vUp7oJJryDlYxQs/8FLqDpwjKhvS1mE3UgzH+XQ=; b=jbj+NTl2lBbgHDyD0AwsH3VmB5iQAzz7DAUFT8ZjKyVcD/NWnxSlsyoF3cKISxU83J +NQU5OpftLiIM247SIcS6fk1KeCuDmzuC3wXJOYttOfvJ13mnO8HFW9cRfPipOkGqiny /LTIbyFhsdGy6F0uhTEqFmjWSF8DXq/9L/VuneZ9bSmh5rZPu49mUVgKch9nYUCXi8B4 eSc3mMSY0u+DsDOeipOt9H3qOFaJtK/xpuddIYuCylj1HHkKLEg2FbquZHJ4GuYH0F7c ObhpIQ6hYGOzfWLeavqdVdMphTeFIgmK+1F1NPlx0ZVDOLY6V5uIY0TN3HEkKXkimwZG 20OQ== Original-Received: by 10.50.47.201 with SMTP id f9mr18175250ign.49.1345037200457; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:26:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.64.70.161 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:26:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.161.169 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:86346 Archived-At: --14dae9340e178aff1b04c74de0e3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 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.) > > --14dae9340e178aff1b04c74de0e3 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I see. =A0Thanks for clarifying. =A0In 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. =A0Thanks Peter. =A0I got the idea to use ~/.emacs/= init.el from the Emacs Starter Kit ( https://githu= b.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/=A0). =A0Presumably it is no substi= tute 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. =A0If 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. =A0It has never been part o= f GNU Emacs,
so GNU Emacs cannot deprecate it. =A0It is a third-party library, color-the= me.el,
and it is still available AFAIK.

What is unfortunate is that GNU Emacs adopted a name, "custom theme&qu= ot;, that is so
close to "color theme", which already has a certain following.
Every few weeks someone posts here with questions that involve confusion be= tween
the two.

(Emacs has had "custom themes" for a long time, but until Emacs 2= 4 they had
nothing to do with colors (as in "color theme"). =A0It is the com= bination of Emacs
24 adopting something similar to what color-theme.el offers plus its inclus= ion
of that new feature in the grab bag called "custom themes" that s= eems to lead to
the confusion.)


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