color themes not working

[dwwalker]

The only color themes available are color-theme-zenburn, color-theme-twilight, color-theme-standard, color-theme-blackboard. Other color themes that are installed on my system cannot be used and color-theme-select does not produce a list of themes.

[gabrielelanaro]

I confirm this bug on my system

[gtoast]

Thirded. Also color-theme is now available in ELPA so it can be taken out of the elpa-to-submit folder.

[skwrl]

Are you sure ? I get this error: "Package `color-theme-6.6.0' is unavailable" when trying to install any color theme from elpa. I also noticed that color-theme.el in elpa-to-submit is an older 6.5.2 version.

Color-theme not working seems to be related to it being currently located in loaddefs.el but commented off, and missing from starter-kit-misc.el where is should be mentioned according to documentation.

[skwrl]

I got color-theme to work in debian sid by copying color-theme-library.el and color-theme.el provided by debian's emacs-goodies-el package into the starter-kit elpa-to-submit directory and executing M-x regen-autoloads and M-x color-theme-select.

[namukang]

I wrote a blog post explaining how to get around this issue: http://blog.dskang.com/2011/05/14/fixing-the-color-theme-problem-with-the-emacs-starter-kit/

[MortalCatalyst]

Interesting yes I cannot get the color theme working. On top of that I looked at dskang's workaround but I have never had a "user.el" file on the three installs I have used emacs-starter-kit with on win7 fedora & now debian. My user file appears to be custom.el

(setq autoload-file (concat dotfiles-dir "loaddefs.el")) (setq package-user-dir (concat dotfiles-dir "elpa")) (setq custom-file (concat dotfiles-dir "custom.el")

[namukang]

fiebber: user.el should be your-username.el, not the literal "user.el" If you look at the bottom of init.el, you'll see that esk loads a file named user.el, user being your actual username.

;; You can keep system- or user-specific customizations here
(setq system-specific-config (concat dotfiles-dir system-name ".el")
      user-specific-config (concat dotfiles-dir user-login-name ".el")
      user-specific-dir (concat dotfiles-dir user-login-name))
(add-to-list 'load-path user-specific-dir)

(if (file-exists-p system-specific-config) (load system-specific-config))
(if (file-exists-p user-specific-dir)
  (mapc #'load (directory-files user-specific-dir nil ".*el$")))
(if (file-exists-p user-specific-config) (load user-specific-config))

[MortalCatalyst]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:59 AM, dskang reply@reply.github.com wrote:

fiebber: user.el should be your-username.el, not the literal "user.el" If you look at the bottom of init.el, you'll see that esk loads a file named user.el, user being your actual username.

Yes I understand but my user name is Sayth but there is no sayth.el file. On my Fedora box I also never had a sayth.el. It's not automatically created for me so should I create a file called that, I have just been attempting to edit custom.el

Sayth

[namukang]

I'm moving this conversation offline as this isn't pertinent to this issue thread.

[technomancy]

Version 2 of the starter kit uses these themes straight off marmalade. I believe the autoloads are still screwed up, but this will need to be fixed upstream.