[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs (dev version) and custom themes

[David Reitter]

You should not have to do that.  There is a discussion on emacs-devel at the moment on how to solve this.  They might insert package-initialize for new users into .emacs.  I don’t know if I like this approach because I’m not sure how people are going to deal with it that use the UI.  It’s going to get solved somehow.

In the meantime, .emacs is loaded before customizations.el.

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> On Aug 22, 2017, at 5:01 PM, Win Treese <treese at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> In the development version of 3.4 (downloaded 8/22/2017), I've been having trouble with color-theme-solarized. The problem is that new frames (typically a pop-up Help frame) don't use the theme settings. Also, the message "Failed to load theme: solarized" appears in the `*Messages*` buffer.
> 
> A note on Emacs Stack Exchange (https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/28849/theme-not-loading-on-startup) suggests that `package-initialize` must be called before the theme is set, which makes sense.
> 
> In Aquamacs the theme is set in `~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/customizations.el`, and it's not clear to me the proper way to slip in `package-initialize` before `customizations.el` is loaded.
> 
> I tried adding `package-initialize` as the first thing in `customizations.el`, which seems to work, but I'm not sure that's the right answer.
> 
> Any suggestions on the right way to do this with Aquamacs? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Win
> 
> 
> 
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