Re: [h-e-w] Configuring for Unix colors

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Unfortunately color-theme.el brakes things because it does
> >
> >     (require 'cl)
> >
> > instead of the correct
> >
> >     (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
>
> That just means all of cl is loaded at run time, rather than just at
> compile time. 
>
> I understand the convention is that if the code is only using cl
> macros, and not cl functions, it should use the latter construct.
>
> Using the former construct may be inefficient, but why do you say it
> is "broken"?

Please see here

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp/html_node/Coding-Conventions.html

In my case I noticed that Emacs started to behave weird in some cases 
after loading color-themes.el.