Interesting timing: just two days ago, I spent a good part of my afternoon making "emacs -nw" running inside GNU screen to look more or less exactly the way my standard windowed Emacs looks. That included mostly fiddling with terminal settings and finding colors that are supported by the terminal and resemble my original choices (and some other tweaking here and there).<p>Now clickong on my Emacs icon on the desktop will open a new gnome-terminal that runs an Emacs inside screen -- it looks pretty much the same as it did before, but I can access and take over my current session remotely from home.
As a matter of fact, the shortcut will actually first check if there's a detached screen session that runs emacs and ask me in a small dialog window if I want to re-attach to that session or start a new window.<p>Makes me happy.<p>Sorry if that post is of no interest at all to anyone else on HN but me...
I don't see any colors other than black and white in the theme on Chrome 10 on Snow Leopard, but I do see bold, underline, italics. I see the colors on Firefox 4 beta on Snow Leopard.
I would rather have an Emacs that offers fewer choices but looks good out of the box.<p>Example: the software supplied by Apple with a Mac does not have any themes except for the choice between Blue (colorful) and Graphite (subdued) in the Appearance system preference pane.<p>OTOH, I regularly have to wait for the software supplied by Apple and I almost never wait for Emacs.
I recommend using senny's theme-roller.el [1] to automatically apply your color theme to any new faces. Brings some sanity to the number of colors that need to be defined.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/senny/theme-roller.el" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/senny/theme-roller.el</a>
There's a similar tool at <a href="http://color-theme-select.heroku.com" rel="nofollow">http://color-theme-select.heroku.com</a> it's also in beta, allowing to generate custom themes and select from a large collection of them. I've contacted the author to see if he's fixing the "generate emacs-lisp" feature.<p>Would be nice people could use that tool to create themes for emacs 24, and send them to emacs-devel.
Is there any cc-mode generator like this? I spent a couple days trying to tweak mine a while back, but try as I might, my comments still want to align all the way left.