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Re: theme and a question about creating them
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Dirk-Jan C . Binnema |
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Re: theme and a question about creating them |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:26:02 +0200 |
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Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/24.0 Mule/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) |
Hi,
>>>>> On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:16:38 -0500, Chong Yidong ("CYD") wrote:
>> Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <address@hidden> writes: I tried to use
>> defvar/defconst and :inherit do this (as the old theme did), but it does
>> not seem to work in the new system, i.e.. I tried something like:
>>
>> (defconst mycolor "#123456")
>> (deftheme mytheme)
>> (custom-theme-set-faces 'mytheme
>> `(default ((t (:background ,mycolor)))))
>>
>> but it seems the defconst is not picked up. And for :inherit, it seems
>> you cannot refer to the faces defined in the same
>> 'custom-theme-set-faces' form. I could define theme elsewhere of course,
>> but obviously it'd be nice if my theme file would be self-contained.
>>
>> Is there some way to use constants like this, either with defconst/defvar
>> or :inherit?
CYD> Currently, the theme loading code is too strict about the forms in the
CYD> theme file that it will evaluate. It uses `unsafep' to check the
CYD> forms, and (defconst mycolor "#123456") is considered unsafe under the
CYD> criteria used by `unsafep'.
CYD> I am not sure what's the best way of handling this. Maybe we should
CYD> just go back to unconditionally loading theme files, since it's
CYD> unlikely we can make evaluating Elisp code truly safe. Any objections
CYD> or alternative ideas?
I'm fine with that, but I'm hardly qualified to see the implications of
this.
Somewhat related, I think that emacs should promote the use of :inherit; many
modes have their own faces which require way to many customizations (look
e.g.. at zenburn which has hundreds of lines).
Finally, load-theme seems like a convenient mechanism to set/unset any set of
values. I wonder if it could be used (if unconditional loading is enabled) to
ship a theme with sets up things in a way that many new users expect, i.e..,
with delete-selection-mode, column-number-mode and a couple of other things.
Best wishes,
Dirk.
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Dirk-Jan C. Binnema Helsinki, Finland
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Re: theme and a question about creating them, Chong Yidong, 2011/01/05
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