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Re: themes
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: themes |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:57:13 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> 1. I normally have a dark-background. Since the "tango" theme is a
> light-background theme, I did "load-theme RET tango RET" expecting
> it to change my background color ... which it didn't. Instead, my
> window flashed, and some random faces changed, but mainly things
> seemed exactly the same.
That sounds like a bug. The tango theme defines "#eeeeec" for the
background of the `default' face. Indeed, I just tried with a dark
background set using .Xresources (Emacs.background: Black), and
M-x load-theme RET tango RET changes the background to pale grey. Could
you provide more details?
> 2. The basic interface seems to be "load-theme", which also turns on
> the theme, and then you can subsequently use "disable-theme" and
> "enable-theme" to turn it off or on again.
>
> Isn't this kind oaf out-of-sync with general Emacs policy, which is
> that "loading" should only load stuff, and not actually execute it?
>
> Perhaps it would be better to deprecate load-theme for user usage,
> make `enable-theme' the main entry point, and give the latter the
> ability to auto-load themes (and do completion on unloaded themes) etc.
I think this is a good idea.
The main entry point for users, however, should be M-x customize-themes,
rather than the load-theme/enable-theme/disable-theme commands. This
interface, by default, allows only one theme to be selected at once
(unchecking the "Allow more than one theme at a time" box allows
multiple selections). This should alleviate the confusion you allude to
over stacking themes.
- themes, Miles Bader, 2010/10/12
- Re: themes,
Chong Yidong <=