From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 23 - color-theme Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:04:30 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249861279 26787 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2009 23:41:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 23:41:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 10 01:41:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MaI0l-0000w0-T1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:41:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MaI0l-0001yF-Ek for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:41:11 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.mixmin.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+hFztFkYLKRYsr50G66+kzUFUlqLDscpQTqExt5n/kOwXCq7tc942y9yD12bfebwUMjFLH/aEsTYavgWaN3aP6kfwBmos56EbQUnFYEm0yTClndAd+LAS91u8fFr5B67WOmtEptklGB7PTaGmbw0rf Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 23:12:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/XvXfk2eAoDMg2M+z7kxH6OjU9FVgstVI76X18zE+TpA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:8WfDQ5b30DfSnju7rxFBgeGf1n8= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171840 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67018 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Richard Riley 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? And it would be nice if color-theme-x could work too since using x resources is so much faster than setting 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? > > --