Re: "clean" starting point for custom-theme-set-faces

[Sam Halliday]

On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 12:41:44 UTC+1, Alex Kost  wrote:
> Sam Halliday (2014-09-17 14:00 +0400) wrote:
> > I'm creating a custom colour theme for emacs inspired by IntelliJ's 
> > Darcula. Work in progress here:
> >   https://github.com/fommil/unix/blob/master/.emacs.d/lisp/Darkula-theme.el
> >
> > But there are a couple of things that confuse me about emacs faces, even 
> > after reading the documentation and I'd appreciate some guidance:
> >
> > 1. When a theme is loaded, what are the default "inherit" values for all 
> > the faces that I'm defining? Is there an implicit "inherit" based on what 
> > that face was before the theme was loaded?
> 
> IIUC you are faced with the old behavior of applying faces that will be
> 
> "fixed" in Emacs 24.4.  I wrote something about that here:
> 
> <https://github.com/alezost/alect-themes/#emacs-2431-and-earlier>.

Excellent, thanks! That answers my question. Although I'm a little confused how 
to use your workaround.

Incidentally, I was originally thinking that I could rewrite my theme to use 
your defaults but it seems to hardcode quite a lot of stuff.

It would be really amazing if a theme template existed that required one to 
only provide 10 colours and then it assigned them in a sensible way across all 
the various popular major modes.