From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491F1431FBF for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 03:02:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FOn4DNklKU7c for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 03:02:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.belohrad.ch (static-212-101-19-163.adsl.solnet.ch [212.101.19.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5CD21431FBD for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 03:02:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beesknees.cern.ch.belohrad.ch (beesknees.cern.ch [137.138.197.99]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: david) by server.belohrad.ch (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B212C2C014F; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:04:11 +0100 (CET) From: David Belohrad To: Austin Clements Subject: Re: how to specify notmuch colors in emacs24 In-Reply-To: <20140306142730.GH4709@mit.edu> References: <20140306142730.GH4709@mit.edu> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.17+54~g9ac863c (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:02:13 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:02:38 -0000 Hi All, thanks for extensive answers on this thread. The plum-1 and other definitions are coming from 'tango-dark' theme of emacs 24, which I wanted to modify. I understood hence, that the two ways of settings the colors (notmuch/emacs24) are so far somehow incompatible and hence there is no way how to specify the notmuch colors the emacs24 way. many thanks .d. Austin Clements writes: > Quoth David Belohrad on Mar 06 at 2:24 pm: >> Dear All, >> >> so far I'm changing some color faces programmatically: >> >> (setq notmuch-search-line-faces '(("deleted" . (:foreground "red" >> :background "blue")) >> ("unread" . (:foreground "DeepSkyBlue")) >> ("flagged" . (:foreground "firebrick1")) >> )) >> >> >> I recently upgraded to emacs24. I was using default shipped tango-dark >> theme. Then (because of VHDL mode I'm using) I have created a custom >> theme, and I'd like to 'backport' the piece of code above into the >> custom theme so it is in accordance with the philosophy of themes. >> >> I have no idea how to specify it using the 'class approach',as e.g. >> >> `(gnus-group-news-1 ((,class (:foreground ,plum-1)))) >> `(gnus-group-news-1-low ((,class (:foreground ,plum-2)))) >> >> Any hint would be greatly appreciated > > I'm not sure what the values of `class', `plum-1', and `plum-2' are in > your above snippet or what the context of that snippet is, so I may be > misunderstanding your problem, but it may help to know that > `gnus-group-news-1' and `notmuch-search-line-faces' are very different > types of variables. > > The value of `gnus-group-news-1' is a face; something like > (:foreground "plum1"). It looks like what you've written above is > actually a "face specification", which uses a bunch of conditions (the > ,class part) to determine which of several potential faces to assign > to the variable (though you listed only one face for each variable, so > I'm not sure why you have a condition). It's unfortunate that Emacs > distinguishes faces and face specification, but that's how it is. > > `notmuch-search-line-faces' is *not* a face variable like > `gnus-group-news-1'. It's an association list that maps tags to > faces. As such, it won't work if your theme is trying to treat it > like a face variable, since its value is not a face, but rather a data > structure that has faces in it.