Re: Suite of Color Themes for console

[Tim Johnson]

* Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> [141021 16:22]:
> 
> Tim Johnson writes:
> 
> > I've downloaded a whole lot of color themes and have been
> > experimenting with them. In some cases I find "munged" colors when I
> > switch color schemes - and I'm guessing that is because when Theme B
> > follows theme A, Theme B may not have all of the same attributes set
> > as Theme A and thus "inherits" colors from Theme A. I don't really
> > care for that.
> >
> > Example : fogus appears to have no settings for 'link and radiance
> > does, so when I switch from radiance to fogus, links show up with the
> > same background and foreground as radiance.
> 
> Aiui, the theming system has been deliberately designed to allow theme
> additivity, i.e. enabling theme A doesn't automatically disable theme B
> by default. So if you want theme B to completely replace theme A, you
> need to M-x disable-theme before enabling theme B.
  Aha! so where I have
  ["Badger - Dark" (load-theme 'badger) :active t]

  I could replace with 
  ["Badger - Dark" (disable-previous-and-load-new-theme 'badger) :active t]
  Where I have 'disable-previous-and-load-new-theme as a wrapper
  that first disables ...

  Am I correct?

  Thanks for the reply and also thanks to John Mastro.
-- 
Tim 
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