Re: emacs 23 - color-theme

[Richard Riley]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Richard Riley<rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Richard Riley<rileyrgdev@gmail.com> 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?
>
>
> I think it is rather the other way round. There is already support for
> theming in Emacs which is very good. This is for both faces and
> options.

I never heard of emacs themes before today but color-themes are
documented in the wiki amongst other places.

>
> The theming inside Emacs lets you both select a theme as a base for
> your faces while it also respects your customizations. Making it

And why does color theme not? If your customisation is loaded after?

> possible to try out other peoples customizations this way is a goal
> and it is rather close actually.

I dont know what you mean Lennart. color-theme-select enables trying out
themes too.

>
> I can't see why this functionality should not be used. Does

I don't really understand what functionality you are referring to.

> color-theme have something similar? Or what functionality in
> color-theme is important to you? Could it be layered on top of Emacs
> themes?

You have lost me to be honest. What do you mean? Color-theme has, well,
color-themes. And a library of them.