Color theme installation for Emacs in Windows 7

color-theme

Table of Contents

• 1 Why we need color-theme
• 2 Download color-theme
• 3 Configuration
• 4 Usage

1 Why we need color-theme?

Everyone has his/her style. I perfer the latter. Which do you like?

2 Download color-theme

• Address: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/color-theme/
• Download zip file for windows.

3 Configuration

• New a directory emacs_site_lisp in home directory.
• How to know your home directory? open eshell, then cd, then pwd, you will see the home directory.
• Unzip the download file, and put it in the dir emacs_site_lisp.
• Add configuration to .emacs. NOTE: we cannot use the configuration on the websit. It doesn't work.

(setq load-path (append load-path (list "~/emacs_site_lisp")))
(setq load-path (append load-path (list "~/emacs_site_lisp/color-theme-6.6.0")))
(require 'color-theme)
(eval-after-load "color-theme"
'(progn
(color-theme-initialize)
(color-theme-gnome2))) ;;what ever you like, I like color-theme-gnome2

4 Usage

If you want to change the color theme when you've opened the emacs, use this command: M-x color-theme-TAB select which you like

• My favorit theme? color-thme-gnome2

Date: 2012-05-11 19:43:29