Re: Suite of Color Themes for console

[Jacob Gerlach]

I believe there is some important distinction between custom themes and
color themes (although I can't recall what it is). My setup is below
(collected from various sources like the wiki - I don't claim any credit).
I think this is the "wrapper" you're looking for.

  (add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path
               (file-name-as-directory
"/home/jacob/.emacs.d/replace-colorthemes"))

  ;; Cycle through this set of themes
  (setq my-themes '(robin-hood charcoal-black classic dark-blue desert))

  (setq my-cur-theme nil)
  (defun cycle-my-theme ()
    "Cycle through a list of themes, my-themes"
    (interactive)
    (when my-cur-theme
      (disable-theme my-cur-theme)
      (setq my-themes (append my-themes (list my-cur-theme))))
    (setq my-cur-theme (pop my-themes))
    (load-theme my-cur-theme t))

  ;; Switch to the first theme in the list above
  (cycle-my-theme)
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-t") 'cycle-my-theme)

The first theme in "my-themes" will be loaded on startup, and you can bind
cycling (as I have to C-t) to make it quick and easy.




On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:

> * Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> [141021 16:22]:
> >
> > Tim Johnson writes:
> >
> > > I've downloaded a whole lot of color themes and have been
> > > experimenting with them. In some cases I find "munged" colors when I
> > > switch color schemes - and I'm guessing that is because when Theme B
> > > follows theme A, Theme B may not have all of the same attributes set
> > > as Theme A and thus "inherits" colors from Theme A. I don't really
> > > care for that.
> > >
> > > Example : fogus appears to have no settings for 'link and radiance
> > > does, so when I switch from radiance to fogus, links show up with the
> > > same background and foreground as radiance.
> >
> > Aiui, the theming system has been deliberately designed to allow theme
> > additivity, i.e. enabling theme A doesn't automatically disable theme B
> > by default. So if you want theme B to completely replace theme A, you
> > need to M-x disable-theme before enabling theme B.
>   Aha! so where I have
>   ["Badger - Dark" (load-theme 'badger) :active t]
>
>   I could replace with
>   ["Badger - Dark" (disable-previous-and-load-new-theme 'badger) :active t]
>   Where I have 'disable-previous-and-load-new-theme as a wrapper
>   that first disables ...
>
>   Am I correct?
>
>   Thanks for the reply and also thanks to John Mastro.
> --
> Tim
> tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
> http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com
>
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