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• drunkpotato 6y ago
  Yes, many! I use deeper-blue. solarized-light and -dark are also good. Themes don’t seem to work well with terminal emacs though, but I haven’t dug into the issue much since I’m mostly in the GUI.
  • barrkel 6y ago
    Well, I wrote my own theme so I could have a consistent experience between GUI and terminal. It meant customizing my terminal colours so they were non-awful (the minimal 16 are super-garish, I have mine tuned for less harsh contrast but also more colour differentiation considering I'm red/green colourblind). I then used the same customized terminal colours in my GUI theme. It works like this: (if (display-graphic-p) (setq color-yellow "#f57900" color-bright-yellow "#fce94f" color-red "#ff6464" color-bright-red "#ef2929" color-bright-green "#73d216" color-green "#4e9a06" color-blue "#729fcf" color-bright-blue "#204a87" color-white "#babdb6" color-bright-white "#eeeeec" color-magenta "#ad7fa8" color-bright-magenta "#1d324b" color-black "#1a2022" color-bright-black "#2e3436" color-bright-cyan "#555753" color-cyan "#888a85") (setq color-black "black" color-white "white" color-red "red" color-green "green" color-blue "blue" color-yellow "yellow" color-cyan "cyan" color-magenta "magenta" color-bright-black "brightblack" color-bright-white "brightwhite" color-bright-red "brightred" color-bright-green "brightgreen" color-bright-blue "brightblue" color-bright-yellow "brightyellow" color-bright-cyan "brightcyan" color-bright-magenta "brightmagenta")) Then, later on, I use these colours for setting the faces for the cursor, region, keywords, comments, tweaking various different major modes, etc. With a true-colour capable terminal there's no technical reason to need to take these steps, but this approach works for me in rxvt-unicode and mintty, the two terminals I use on Linux and Windows respectively, and aren't mucked up by any level of tmux or screen nesting.
• webkike 6y ago
  Yup. It used to have color-themes, which I believe was a package, but maybe five years ago they switched to supporting themes as first class citizens. I use solarized dark
  • cannam 6y ago
    Oh yes, I see there's a theme entry down in the Customize Emacs submenu at the bottom of the Options menu. Logical though that may be, I had no idea. It's not as if I even have a complicated custom theme in my .emacs - I have a couple of lines, but mainly I just don't change the colours from their defaults any more. I care a great deal about what my editor looks like, but it turns out that the default colours - black text, white background, pleasantly dark font-lock colours - are perfect for me already. (I waste my time on fonts instead)
• jackcviers3 6y ago
  I use doom-themes laserwave. It's in melpa. M-x customize-themes and look for themes on melpa, you can make it look like the new hotness. Also, install doom-modeline from melpa, and M-x all-the-icons-install-fonts for a really informative and beautiful mode line.
• jeromenerf 6y ago
  It does. I like leuven.
• masukomi 6y ago
  welcome to the wide wide world of shared themes https://emacsthemes.com/ https://emacsthemes.com/ https://github.com/hlissner/emacs-doom-themes/tree/screenshots https://github.com/hlissner/emacs-doom-themes/tree/screensho... and probably many others run load-theme to switch by name, to any you've got installed.
• dunham 6y ago
  I wanted a "none" or "default" option there. Also the one about communities (reddit etc) was mandatory and no option applied.
• randrews 6y ago
  The "what did you use before Emacs" question stumped me: only one of those even existed when I started using Emacs. :)