[OS X Emacs] Zenburn Theme based on Custom Themes

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The "idea" of light text on dark backgrounds was never "abolished".  It's used by lots of people who find it irritating to stare into a bright light all day.

-- Pete


On Mar 19, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Kao Felix wrote:

> On 19/03/2010, at 20:43, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> The idea of light text on dark background was abolished 25 years ago when DEC started to produce the vt220 terminal. Vt320 was a bit better, coming in amber instead of green.
>> 
>> Obviously in a capitalistic society progress returns to where it once started. Because re-inventing the wheel with CAD is much cheaper and more economical with a guarantee of bigger profits then inventing it the first time.
> 
> I couldn't make much sense of this last paragraph. Anyway, dark backgrounds are still out there and some people like it. I personally like zenburn because of the low contrast that is not too low. That's why I made it.
> 
> On 19/03/2010, at 21:34, Leonardo Santagada wrote:
>> I personally like a lot "espresso libre" theme on textmate, maybe I can convince Kao to make a conversion utility from textmate to emacs themes.
> 
> 
> I've downloaded and opened a theme from http://wiki.macromates.com/Themes/UserSubmittedThemes and it seems they're just an xml, so it shouldn't be too hard to make a conversor. And, what a surprise, most themes on the page are dark background too :)
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