Color Theme Darkmate for Emacs
Color Theme is an Emacs-Lisp package for making Emacs colorful and beautiful. It is popularly used among Emacsers, including me. When I use it and try to fontify Emacs as the font-lock facilities do, I found there is a bug in the Color Theme latest version 6.6.0 package.
Line 689 of the source file "color-theme.el", in the defination of function "color-theme-spec-compat", it uses "cadar" to fetch out the property of only the first element of face specification, rather than fetch out the whole specification. So give the face specification as
(dired-mark ((((class color) (min-colors 88)) (:foreground "red")) (((class color) (min-colors 16)) (:foreground "green")) (((class color) (min-colors 8)) (:foreground "blue")) (((type tty) (class mono)) (:foreground "white")) (t (:foreground "red"))))
It is a correct face specification(refer to macro `defface' for more information of face specification), and "dired-mark" should be in color "green" under 16-color environment and "blue" under 8-color environment. However function "color-theme-spec-compat" just set "dired-mark" to be "red" in any case. It reduces the flexibility of face-lock facilities of Emacs when using Color Theme.
To fix this, I revise the defination of "color-theme-spec-compat" like
(defun color-theme-spec-compat (spec) "An redifination of `color-theme-spec-compat' of `color-theme'. To apply different face settings according to different term types." (let (compat-spec props) (dolist (dis-atts spec) (setq props (cadr dis-atts)) (when (plist-member props :bold) (setq props (color-theme-plist-delete props :bold)) (unless (plist-member props :weight) (setq props (plist-put props :weight 'bold)))) (when (plist-member props :italic) (setq props (color-theme-plist-delete props :italic)) (unless (plist-member props :slant) (setq props (plist-put props :slant 'italic)))) (setcdr dis-atts `(,props)) (add-to-list 'compat-spec dis-atts 'APPEND)) compat-spec))
and put this into the file "color-theme+.el".
I give a try out to customize a color-theme of my favour as well. I name it "color-theme-darkmate". This color theme is inspired by the theme darkmate of gEdit, which is a color theme somewhat similar with the theme of editor TextMate on Mac. I never use the editor TextMate before and don't know how much does "color-theme-darkmate" look like the theme TextMate. The settings in "color-theme-darkmate.el" is created in the opinion of using a few elementary colors as consistantly as possible in various modes to make a colorful and eye candy Emacs.
You could download "color-theme+.el" and "color-theme-darkmate.el" here.
Enjoy!