In emacs 24 I cannot get load-theme to recognize solarized.

[milkypostman]

I have the directory in my load path. but load-theme (and even enable-theme) do not recognize the theme as being installed.

[jwhitley]

It appears that emacs 24 (built from revno 104333 of the emacs bzr repo) has a different mechanism for loading themes than documented for solarized, as well as some API breakage. From custom.el, emacs now looks for files of the form THEME-theme.el in ~/.emacs.d/ by default (one can specify additional directories via custom-theme-load-path).

It appears that the zenburn theme has done a port for emacs 24; I add it here as a reference to the new API: https://github.com/djcb/elisp/blob/master/themes/zenburn-theme.el

This post on the zenburn emacs 24 port has a few useful tips for users as well: http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2011/05/porting-zenburn-theme-to-emacs-24.html

[andersjohansson]

For me it just worked putting solarized-definitions.el, solarized-dark-theme.el and solarized-light-theme.el as of commit 3448 in ~/.emacs.d/ and then using load-theme with solarized-(light|dark). I don't know if the files are really "properly" ported considering jwhitley's comment though.

Using GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1

[drewwells]

Is this getting fixed?

[sellout]

Is the fix for this just to change the README from

Add the emacs-color-theme-solarized directory to your Emacs load-path.

to

Add the emacs-color-theme-solarized directory to your Emacs load-path and custom-theme-load-path.

The reason it needs to be in both is because the theme files reference solarized-definitons.el, so that file needs to be in the load-path.

@jwhitley – What is the API breakage? Solarized's definition is a bit complicated because I'm using one form to generate both light and dark themes and both color-theme and Emacs 24 themes, so it's not quite as straightforward as a normal theme definition. That said, I am having trouble getting the Emacs 24 light theme to work properly (it loads, but colors are often wrong), while the other three all are.

[drewwells]

Perhaps this would help: https://github.com/purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-solarized/commit/4f115a2a342a4c0f71e275f24d34d1aae11748ef purcell's version works quite well with the new package manager

My only reference in .emacs

(package-initialize)
(load-theme 'solarized-dark t)

[sellout]

@drewwells That's all you should need in mine, too. It seems your complaint is more that solarized isn't in ELPA. Is that right? I can definitely get it added.

[sellout]

@drewwells Actually, I forgot, but solarized is already in the Marmalade repo.

[drewwells]

Actually I was a bit confused, there are three variations of solarized in Marmalade/ELPA repos. One of them is a fork, and only one of the other two worked when I installed it. The one I installed uses (load-theme 'solarized-dark t).

[sellout]

@drewwells “color-theme-solarized” is this one. Did that one work for you?

[drewwells]

No, it doesn't show up under load-theme or enable-theme. I think the commit above solves that problem

[hineios]

Have you considered including this on Melpa too?

(apparently Marmalade has an expired certificate, is no longer ELPA compatible and is discontinued?

[drewwells]

lol, i'm still seeing this issue. Do the install instructions need to include load-path? I don't see anything new that tells people how to get the el files included as part of load-path