#Emacs theme how to
If you’re not willing to learn how to do that, what’s the point?Īnd really, I think chasing these “new users” is mostly a fool’s errand. You start with something very basic and mold it to fit your needs. Emacs is all about providing you with a highly customized text processing environment. To my mind, if you don’t have the commitment to figure out how to install a theme of your liking-again, a fairly trivial task-then, really, Emacs is probably not for you. This crystallizes my main objection to all this. Indeed, I did install Solarized for about 38 seconds, which was all it took me to decide I didn’t like it. If, at that point, I had wanted a more specialized theme, I would have had no problem installing it. Installing the theme of your choice is even easier. That’s one line for the background and one for the cursor. Later, when I had a bit more experience and the white background began bothering my eyes, I set background to a light tan and made the cursor red. I chose the light theme and all the other syntax highlighting colors were chosen for me and seemed perfectly fine. I’m not sure what happens these days but when I first started using Emacs I recall being asked if I wanted what we now call a light or dark theme. One of the complaints is that themes are too hard for n00bs to figure out. The suggestions are mostly the usual silliness like making the default theme be dark mode, and, of course, making CUA mode the default-current users be damned. LWN has an article on the latest iteration of “ Hey kids! Let’s make Emacs more modern.” that keeps reappearing on the Emacs-devel list like a stubborn rash that won’t go away. I cry out in despair, “For the love of Cthulhu, not again.” And yet my pleas go unanswered.
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