Colour themes suggestions?

Colour themes suggestions?

[Rainer M. Krug]

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Hi

I am looking for some subjective opinions on color themes for emacs
24. I am using (obviously) org-mode and mainly for literate programming
in R and also use gnus. There might be more to come, but I don't know
yet.

I am looking for suggestions for color themes which are on a light
background (reflections are less) and has nice and effective syntax
highlighting. Any suggestions? I am using twilight-bright at the momen,
but am somehow not that happy with it.

Any (subjective) suggestions?
Thanks,

Rainer

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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Torsten Wagner]

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Hi Rainer,

I am a big fan of Zenburn.
Unfortunately, it is exactly the opposite of what you are looking for. I
find it very eye friendly.
However, maybe once in a while you want a dark-color-theme and then zenburn
might be worse to try ;)

Greetings

Torsten

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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Thomas S. Dye]

Hi Rainer
Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Rainer,
>
> I am a big fan of Zenburn.
> Unfortunately, it is exactly the opposite of what you are looking for. I
> find it very eye friendly.
> However, maybe once in a while you want a dark-color-theme and then zenburn
> might be worse to try ;)
>

The anti-zenburn theme is the light version.  It is subdued and the
faces make the distinctions well, as does zenburn.

hth,
Tom

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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Rainer M. Krug]

tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:

> Hi Rainer
> Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Rainer,
>>
>> I am a big fan of Zenburn.
>> Unfortunately, it is exactly the opposite of what you are looking for. I
>> find it very eye friendly.
>> However, maybe once in a while you want a dark-color-theme and then zenburn
>> might be worse to try ;)
>>
>
> The anti-zenburn theme is the light version.  It is subdued and the
> faces make the distinctions well, as does zenburn.

Excellent idea - I'll check it out.

Thanks,

Rainer


>
> hth,
> Tom
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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Rainer M. Krug]

Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Rainer,
>
> I am a big fan of Zenburn. 
> Unfortunately, it is exactly the opposite of what you are looking for. I find it very eye friendly.
> However, maybe once in a while you want a dark-color-theme and then zenburn might be worse to try ;)

I know Zenburn - I used it before under emacs 23. Very nice theme
indeed.

I will install it and keep it as a second option.

Thanks,

Rainer

>
> Greetings
>
> Torsten
>
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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 03:32:31PM +0200, Rainer M. Krug wrote:
> 
> I am looking for suggestions for color themes which are on a light
> background (reflections are less) and has nice and effective syntax
> highlighting. Any suggestions? I am using twilight-bright at the momen,
> but am somehow not that happy with it.

Completely opposite of what you asked, you could checkout dark-emacs[1].
It is a very dark theme, designed to emulate emacs -nw in a black
background terminal.  It has some org related customisations in
(custom-theme-set-variables ...) and some of the org faces are built up
on other basic faces; all in all it might give you some ideas to write
your own theme.

GL,


Footnotes:

[1] <https://github.com/suvayu/.emacs.d/blob/master/themes/dark-emacs-theme.el>


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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[François Allisson]

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> a écrit:
> Completely opposite of what you asked, you could checkout dark-emacs[1].
> It is a very dark theme, designed to emulate emacs -nw in a black
> background terminal.  It has some org related customisations in
> (custom-theme-set-variables ...) and some of the org faces are built up
> on other basic faces; all in all it might give you some ideas to write
> your own theme.
>
> [1] <https://github.com/suvayu/.emacs.d/blob/master/themes/dark-emacs-theme.el>

I really like your dark-emacs. Just adopted it.
Perfect for org-mode (and for mu4e, by the way).
Thanks Suvayu Ali!

François

Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Fabrice Popineau]

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This one is cool too :
(color-theme-sanityinc-tomorrow-night)

Fabrice


2013/4/17 François Allisson <francois@allisson.co>

> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> a écrit:
> > Completely opposite of what you asked, you could checkout dark-emacs[1].
> > It is a very dark theme, designed to emulate emacs -nw in a black
> > background terminal.  It has some org related customisations in
> > (custom-theme-set-variables ...) and some of the org faces are built up
> > on other basic faces; all in all it might give you some ideas to write
> > your own theme.
> >
> > [1] <
> https://github.com/suvayu/.emacs.d/blob/master/themes/dark-emacs-theme.el>
>
> I really like your dark-emacs. Just adopted it.
> Perfect for org-mode (and for mu4e, by the way).
> Thanks Suvayu Ali!
>
> François
>
>


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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 04:03:15PM +0200, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
> This one is cool too :
> (color-theme-sanityinc-tomorrow-night)

From the name I would guess it uses the color theme package?  If that is
the case, then it will not work with Emacs 24.

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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Fabrice Popineau]

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2013/4/17 Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 04:03:15PM +0200, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
> > This one is cool too :
> > (color-theme-sanityinc-tomorrow-night)
>
> From the name I would guess it uses the color theme package?  If that is
> the case, then it will not work with Emacs 24.
>
>
The name stayed this way, but it has been updated for newer Emacs.

https://github.com/purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-tomorrow

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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 04:31:33PM +0200, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
> 2013/4/17 Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 04:03:15PM +0200, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
> > > This one is cool too :
> > > (color-theme-sanityinc-tomorrow-night)
> >
> > From the name I would guess it uses the color theme package?  If that is
> > the case, then it will not work with Emacs 24.
> >
> >
> The name stayed this way, but it has been updated for newer Emacs.
> 
> https://github.com/purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-tomorrow

Okay, thanks.  :)

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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 03:52:59PM +0200, François Allisson wrote:
> 
> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> a écrit:
> > Completely opposite of what you asked, you could checkout dark-emacs[1].
> > It is a very dark theme, designed to emulate emacs -nw in a black
> > background terminal.  It has some org related customisations in
> > (custom-theme-set-variables ...) and some of the org faces are built up
> > on other basic faces; all in all it might give you some ideas to write
> > your own theme.
> >
> > [1] <https://github.com/suvayu/.emacs.d/blob/master/themes/dark-emacs-theme.el>
> 
> I really like your dark-emacs. Just adopted it.
> Perfect for org-mode (and for mu4e, by the way).
> Thanks Suvayu Ali!

Glad that you like it.  :)

My eventual goal with this is to make it fairly complete in terms of
supported terminals, and request for inclusion with Emacs.  At the
moment it supports gui/X-window, 8 bit, and 256 bit colour terminals.

> 
> François

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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Vikas Rawal]

> yet.
> 
> I am looking for suggestions for color themes which are on a light
> background (reflections are less) and has nice and effective syntax
> highlighting. 

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-color-themes.html

You may like Leuven.

Vikas

Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Rainer M. Krug]

Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:

>> yet.
>> 
>> I am looking for suggestions for color themes which are on a light
>> background (reflections are less) and has nice and effective syntax
>> highlighting. 
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-color-themes.html
>
> You may like Leuven.

Indeed - Leuven looks very nice - I like the different background
colors for the code blocks - very useful.

Thanks,

Rainer

>
> Vikas
>
>
>
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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Rainer M. Krug]

Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:

> Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:
>
>>> yet.
>>> 
>>> I am looking for suggestions for color themes which are on a light
>>> background (reflections are less) and has nice and effective syntax
>>> highlighting. 
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-color-themes.html
>>
>> You may like Leuven.
>
> Indeed - Leuven looks very nice - I like the different background
> colors for the code blocks - very useful.

One question though - can I use it under emacs 24, as it states
"Obsolete since Emacs 24" on git?

Rainer


>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer
>
>>
>> Vikas
>>
>>
>>
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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Sebastien Vauban]

Rainer M. Krug wrote:
> Rainer-vfylz/Ys1k4@public.gmane.org (Rainer M. Krug) writes:
>> Vikas Rawal <vikaslists-gY6uWiqvZ+vta4EC/59zMGD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> I am looking for suggestions for color themes which are on a light
>>>> background (reflections are less) and has nice and effective syntax
>>>> highlighting. 
>>>
>>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-color-themes.html
>>>
>>> You may like Leuven.
>>
>> Indeed - Leuven looks very nice - I like the different background
>> colors for the code blocks - very useful.
>
> One question though - can I use it under emacs 24, as it states
> "Obsolete since Emacs 24" on git?

There are 2 different packages, one using `color-theme-6.6.0' (which does not
work anymore on Emacs 24, IIRC), and another using the new "custom theme"
feature of Emacs.

So, it does well work under Emacs 24.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Rainer M. Krug]

"Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:

> Rainer M. Krug wrote:
>> Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:
>>> Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am looking for suggestions for color themes which are on a light
>>>>> background (reflections are less) and has nice and effective syntax
>>>>> highlighting. 
>>>>
>>>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-color-themes.html
>>>>
>>>> You may like Leuven.
>>>
>>> Indeed - Leuven looks very nice - I like the different background
>>> colors for the code blocks - very useful.
>>
>> One question though - can I use it under emacs 24, as it states
>> "Obsolete since Emacs 24" on git?
>
> There are 2 different packages, one using `color-theme-6.6.0' (which does not
> work anymore on Emacs 24, IIRC), and another using the new "custom theme"
> feature of Emacs.
>
> So, it does well work under Emacs 24.

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good to know, but I seem to be looking at the wrong place.

For the record: the correct git repo for emacs 24 is:

https://github.com/fniessen/emacs-leuven-theme

It is working now and looking really nice!

Thanks for everybody's input and help,

Rainer

- 
>
> Best regards,
>   Seb


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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Manuel Prinz]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 03:32:31PM +0200, Rainer M. Krug wrote:
> I am looking for suggestions for color themes which are on a light
> background (reflections are less) and has nice and effective syntax
> highlighting. Any suggestions?

I'm a big fan of Solarized [1]. It comes in light and dark. I use it
in combination with the font "Source Code Pro" [2].

Best regards,

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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Rainer M. Krug]

Manuel Prinz <manuel@pinguinkiste.de> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 03:32:31PM +0200, Rainer M. Krug wrote:
>> I am looking for suggestions for color themes which are on a light
>> background (reflections are less) and has nice and effective syntax
>> highlighting. Any suggestions?
>
> I'm a big fan of Solarized [1]. It comes in light and dark. I use it
> in combination with the font "Source Code Pro" [2].

Thanks - will check them out.

Rainer

>
> Best regards,
>
>   Manuel
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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Rainer M. Krug]

Manuel Prinz <manuel@pinguinkiste.de> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 03:32:31PM +0200, Rainer M. Krug wrote:
>> I am looking for suggestions for color themes which are on a light
>> background (reflections are less) and has nice and effective syntax
>> highlighting. Any suggestions?
>
> I'm a big fan of Solarized [1]. It comes in light and dark. I use it
> in combination with the font "Source Code Pro" [2].

Yes - solarized is nice.

I am now using Occidental which offers quite a nice contrast and syntax
highlighting.

One question about the font: Can I use it under Linux as well? And how
can I install it then?

Tanks,

Rainer

>
> Best regards,
>
>   Manuel
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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Rainer M. Krug]

Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:

> Manuel Prinz <manuel@pinguinkiste.de> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 03:32:31PM +0200, Rainer M. Krug wrote:
>>> I am looking for suggestions for color themes which are on a light
>>> background (reflections are less) and has nice and effective syntax
>>> highlighting. Any suggestions?
>>
>> I'm a big fan of Solarized [1]. It comes in light and dark. I use it
>> in combination with the font "Source Code Pro" [2].
>
> Yes - solarized is nice.
>
> I am now using Occidental which offers quite a nice contrast and syntax
> highlighting.
>
> One question about the font: Can I use it under Linux as well? And how
> can I install it then?

Sorry - found it.

Rainer

>
> Tanks,
>
> Rainer
>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>   Manuel
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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[David Rogers]

Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:

> One question about the font: Can I use it under Linux as well? And how
> can I install it then?

Yes you can use it.

1. Download font

2. Place font in ~/.fonts/ (you may create this directory if you don't
already have it.)

(3. Stop & start Emacs? Can't remember.)

Done.

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Re: Colour themes suggestions?

[Rainer M. Krug]

David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com> writes:

> Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes:
>
>> One question about the font: Can I use it under Linux as well? And how
>> can I install it then?
>
> Yes you can use it.
>
> 1. Download font
>
> 2. Place font in ~/.fonts/ (you may create this directory if you don't
> already have it.)
>
> (3. Stop & start Emacs? Can't remember.)
>
> Done.
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Thanks - found it and working.

Rainer


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