Using a package installed via ELPA

daniele.g

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Jul 13, 2012, 9:09:54 AM7/13/12

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I've installed zenburn color theme via ELPA in EMACS23, what now? I've
discovered that I can't load it using the usual color theme tool.

Thanks in advance.
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Christian Kellermann

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Jul 13, 2012, 10:18:12 AM7/13/12

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dgi...@iol.it (daniele.g) writes:

> I've installed zenburn color theme via ELPA in EMACS23, what now? I've
> discovered that I can't load it using the usual color theme tool.

I have added this to my .emacs:

(load-theme 'zen-and-art)

HTH,

Christian

Christian Kellermann

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Jul 13, 2012, 10:22:28 AM7/13/12

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(load-theme 'zenburn) in your case of course...

daniele.g

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Jul 13, 2012, 10:41:43 AM7/13/12

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Christian Kellermann <ck...@pestilenz.org> writes:

> Christian Kellermann <ck...@pestilenz.org> writes:

>
>> Dgi...@iol.it (daniele.g) writes:
>>
>>> I've installed zenburn color theme via ELPA in EMACS23, what now? I've
>>> discovered that I can't load it using the usual color theme tool.
>>
>> I have added this to my .emacs:
>>
>> (load-theme 'zen-and-art)
>

> (Load-theme 'zenburn) in your case of course...
>

File error: Cannot open load file, zenburn-theme

this is what I have got:

,----[ ls ~/.emacs.d/elpa/zenburn-1.8 ]
| zenburn-autoloads.el
| zenburn-autoloads.el~
| zenburn.el
| zenburn.elc
| zenburn-pkg.el
| zenburn-pkg.elc
`----

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skc

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Jul 13, 2012, 12:39:43 PM7/13/12

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On Friday, July 13, 2012 4:09:54 PM UTC+3, giglio robbo' d'acciaio wrote:
> I've installed zenburn color theme via ELPA in EMACS23, what now? I've
> discovered that I can't load it using the usual color theme tool.

>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Pioviggina, governo ladruncolo.

Is ~/.emacs.d/elpa/zenburn-1.8 in custom-theme-load-path ?

skc

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Jul 13, 2012, 12:39:43 PM7/13/12

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On Friday, July 13, 2012 4:09:54 PM UTC+3, giglio robbo' d'acciaio wrote:
> I've installed zenburn color theme via ELPA in EMACS23, what now? I've

> discovered that I can't load it using the usual color theme tool.

>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Pioviggina, governo ladruncolo.

Drew Adams

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Jul 13, 2012, 1:27:57 PM7/13/12

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>> I've installed zenburn color theme via ELPA in EMACS23,

>> what now? I've discovered that I can't load it using the
>> usual color theme tool.
...

> Is ~/.emacs.d/elpa/zenburn-1.8 in custom-theme-load-path ?

Seems really too bad that Emacs Dev installed "custom" theme stuff that kind of
does what color-theme.el does, but not quite.

Every few weeks we now get posts here that confuse the two. Sometimes the
confusion is in the original question; sometimes it is in a response; sometimes
both.

Presumably things would be less confusing if the names of these somewhat
different critters were not also so similar (custom theme vs color theme).

But IIUC, Emacs in fact had its own "theme" stuff for a long time. It's just
that recently they decided to extend Emacs custom themes to also do something
similar to what 3rd-party package color-theme.el has always done.

I guess at this point there is no simple way to avoid confusion. We'll just
have to keep pointing out the difference (e.g. here). Birth of a Frequently
Unasked Question Unwittingly Premised...

daniele.g

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Jul 15, 2012, 9:03:44 AM7/15/12

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No.
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skc

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Jul 16, 2012, 6:04:00 PM7/16/12

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On Sunday, July 15, 2012 4:03:44 PM UTC+3, giglio robbo' d'acciaio wrote:
> skc <shimoco @ gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Friday, July 13, 2012 4:09:54 PM UTC+3, giglio robbo&#39; d&#39;acciaio wrote:
> >> I&#39;ve installed zenburn color theme via ELPA in EMACS23, what now? I&#39;ve
> >> discovered that I can&#39;t load it using the usual color theme tool.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >> --
> >> Pioviggina, governo ladruncolo.
> >
> > Is ~/.emacs.d/elpa/zenburn-1.8 in custom-theme-load-path ?
>
> No.
> --
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> -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), filosofo statunitense

Sorry about the confusion. custom-theme-load-path has nothing to do with color-theme.
However, i found a custom-theme version for zenburn at https://github.com/bbatsov/zenburn-emacs/

skc

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Jul 16, 2012, 6:04:00 PM7/16/12

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On Sunday, July 15, 2012 4:03:44 PM UTC+3, giglio robbo' d'acciaio wrote:
> skc <shimoco @ gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Friday, July 13, 2012 4:09:54 PM UTC+3, giglio robbo&#39; d&#39;acciaio wrote:
> >> I&#39;ve installed zenburn color theme via ELPA in EMACS23, what now? I&#39;ve
> >> discovered that I can&#39;t load it using the usual color theme tool.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >> --
> >> Pioviggina, governo ladruncolo.
> >

> > Is ~/.emacs.d/elpa/zenburn-1.8 in custom-theme-load-path ?
>
> No.
> --
> La solitudine e' impossibile, e la societa' e' fatale.

> -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), filosofo statunitense