Re: Having Issues With Using 'hallo.el' Example Theme, And Creating A Custom Theme

[Samuel Banya]

Minor change in links, I changed the location of my custom theme to here:
https://github.com/SamuelBanya/morrowind-emacs-theme

On Sun, May 15, 2022, at 3:01 PM, Samuel Banya wrote:
> Hey there,
> I've been following along with this video:
> Emacs Tips - How to Create Your Own Color Theme 
> (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCIudu53Zg)
> 
> This video basically uses this theme as an example with the 'autothemer' 
> MELPA package:
> https://github.com/daviwil/emacs-from-scratch/blob/master/hallo-theme.el
> 
> The problem I have is, I can't get even the example 'hallo' theme to load 
> with 'M-x load-theme hallo'.
> 
> More so, I've been trying to create my own Morrowind theme here:
> https://github.com/SamuelBanya/emacs-morrowind-theme
> 
> Both themes just won't work.
> 
> I have a literate config, so here's config on GitHub with 'configuration.org' 
> and 'init.el' present:
> https://github.com/SamuelBanya/SamsEmacs 
> 
> Here's the current output of ~/.emacs.d on my machine (NOTE: The symlinks are 
> because I use GNU Stow to stow away dotfiles like this with 'stow -t 
> ~/.emacs.d'):
>   /home/sam/.emacs.d:
>   total used in directory 24 available 286.2 GiB
>   drwxr-xr-x  5 sam sam 4096 May 15 14:31 .
>   drwx------ 35 sam sam 4096 May 15 13:36 ..
>   drwx------  2 sam sam 4096 May 15 14:37 auto-save-list
>   lrwxrwxrwx  1 sam sam   33 May 15 13:36 configuration.el -> 
> ../hub/SamsEmacs/configuration.el
>   lrwxrwxrwx  1 sam sam   34 May 15 13:36 configuration.org -> 
> ../hub/SamsEmacs/configuration.org
>   drwxr-xr-x 87 sam sam 4096 May 15 13:40 elpa
>   lrwxrwxrwx  1 sam sam   35 May 15 13:36 emacs-morrowind.el -> 
> ../hub/SamsEmacs/emacs-morrowind.el
>   lrwxrwxrwx  1 sam sam   24 May 15 13:36 init.el -> ../hub/SamsEmacs/init.el
>   -rw-------  1 sam sam  624 May 15 14:31 recentf
>   lrwxrwxrwx  1 sam sam   25 May 15 13:36 snippets -> 
> ../hub/SamsEmacs/snippets
>   drwxr-xr-x  2 sam sam 4096 May 15 14:31 transient
>   lrwxrwxrwx  1 sam sam   38 May 15 13:36 word-perfect-theme.el -> 
> ../hub/SamsEmacs/word-perfect-theme.el
> 
> Here's the debugger output when I attempted to load the theme:
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Unable to find theme file for 
> ‘emacs-morrowind’")
>   signal(error ("Unable to find theme file for ‘emacs-morrowind’"))
>   error("Unable to find theme file for `%s'" emacs-morrowind)
>   load-theme(emacs-morrowind t)
>   eval((load-theme 'emacs-morrowind t) t)
>   eval-expression((load-theme 'emacs-morrowind t) nil nil 127)
>   funcall-interactively(eval-expression (load-theme 'emacs-morrowind t) nil 
> nil 127)
>   call-interactively(eval-expression nil nil)
>   command-execute(eval-expression)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Sam
>