Re: "clean" starting point for custom-theme-set-faces

[Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 12:41:44 UTC+1, Alex Kost  wrote:
> Sam Halliday (2014-09-17 14:00 +0400) wrote:
> > I'm creating a custom colour theme for emacs inspired by IntelliJ's Darcula. Work in progress here:
> >   https://github.com/fommil/unix/blob/master/.emacs.d/lisp/Darkula-theme.el
> >
> > But there are a couple of things that confuse me about emacs faces, even after reading the documentation and I'd appreciate some guidance:
> >
> > 1. When a theme is loaded, what are the default "inherit" values for all the faces that I'm defining? Is there an implicit "inherit" based on what that face was before the theme was loaded?
> 
> IIUC you are faced with the old behavior of applying faces that will be
> 
> "fixed" in Emacs 24.4.  I wrote something about that here:
> 
> <https://github.com/alezost/alect-themes/#emacs-2431-and-earlier>.

Excellent, thanks! That answers my question. Although I'm a little confused how to use your workaround.

Incidentally, I was originally thinking that I could rewrite my theme to use your defaults but it seems to hardcode quite a lot of stuff.

It would be really amazing if a theme template existed that required one to only provide 10 colours and then it assigned them in a sensible way across all the various popular major modes.