I've been trying to install color themes for emacs and I'm not quite sure how I can do it. I have downloaded an .el
file and put it under my .emacs.d
folder, then edited my .emacs
file and added this:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/empty-void.el")
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/color-theme.el")
(require 'color-theme)
(load-theme 'empty-void)
(eval-after-load "color-theme"
'(progn
(color-theme-initialize)))
Then I opened emacs and tried to do M-x color-theme-empty-void
but there isn't any command like that. So I did M-x color-theme-select
but the theme was not listed there either.
I tried this with other theme files too but I couldn't get it to work. How can I load the theme files to color-theme?
Best Answer
Step 1: Download the latest version of color-theme -- i.e.,
color-theme-6.6.0.zip
from: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/color-theme/Step 2: Extract archive to the
~/.emacs.d
directory. This process will create the following two directories:~/.emacs.d/color-theme-6.6.0
and~/.emacs.d/color-theme-6.6.0/themes
Step 3: Download (to the preferred location, e.g.,
~/.emacs.d/color-theme-6.6.0/themes
) the original source of the file that is presumably being used by the original poster of this particular thread -- i.e.,color-theme-empty-void.el
from ( http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/color-theme-empty-void.el ). I choose to keep the same name of the file and I saved it to:~/.emacs.d/color-theme-6.6.0/themes/color-theme-empty-void.el
Step 4: Add the following lines of code to the
.emacs
file:Step 5: Restart Emacs and enjoy.