Re: emacs 23 - color-theme

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Richard Riley<rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Richard Riley<rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The color-theme with emacs 23 in debian unstable at least does not
>>> work. Whats the best way to report this? Standard emacs development
>>> mailing list?
>>>
>>> color-theme-6.6.0 from tar worked ok even if the instrucions from make
>>> did not. You need to follow the instructions in the README rather than
>>> the make output.
>>
>> Please see the suggestion here for using Emacs themes for this instead:
>>
>>    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-08/msg00356.html
>>
>> This is already working, but some things will have to be improved.
>
> Like having some themes?!? Whats so good about this? Surely eaiser to
> just make color-themes work as shipped than introducing yet another
> "almost the same" package?


I think it is rather the other way round. There is already support for
theming in Emacs which is very good. This is for both faces and
options.

The theming inside Emacs lets you both select a theme as a base for
your faces while it also respects your customizations. Making it
possible to try out other peoples customizations this way is a goal
and it is rather close actually.

I can't see why this functionality should not be used. Does
color-theme have something similar? Or what functionality in
color-theme is important to you? Could it be layered on top of Emacs
themes?


>> BTW, someone said it would be good to make an elisp program for
>> translating color themes to this new format. Is anyone interested in
>> doing that?