I installed the Solarized theme through package-install RET solarized-theme, and it went largely well but .org files have a strange appearance:
Note how it hides the line numbers. Here is how it looks on other files:
How do I make it so that org files have the same appearance as other files? Please note that I am new to this so I may not understand some things that are obvious to more experienced Emacs hackers.
My init.el file:
(package-initialize)
;;settings files location
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/settings")
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/")
;;import settings from other files
(require 'general-settings)
;;theme loading
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/")
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
'(custom-enabled-themes (quote (solarized-dark)))
'(custom-safe-themes
(quote
("8aebf25556399b58091e533e455dd50a6a9cba958cc4ebb0aab175863c25b9a4" default)))
'(inhibit-startup-screen t)
'(package-selected-packages (quote (solarized-theme))))
(custom-set-faces
;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
)
(load-theme 'solarized-dark t)
;;ido
(require 'ido)
(ido-mode t)(package-initialize)
(setq package-archives
'(("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/")
("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/")))
;;org-mode
;;markdown
(autoload 'markdown-mode "markdown-mode"
"Major mode for editing Markdown files" t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\(.text\\|.markdown\\|.md\\)'" . markdown-mode))
(setq markdown-enable-math t) ;;enables math functions
my settings file (some useful things I borrowed from a friend):
;;------------------------------;;
;; Global Editor Settings ;;
;;------------------------------;;
(setq current-language-environment "English") ;; Language
(setq inhibit-startup-screen t) ;; Don't show the start-up Screen
(menu-bar-mode 0) ;; Toggle menu bar
(require 'tool-bar) ;; Toggle toolbar
(tool-bar-mode 0)
(global-hl-line-mode 1) ;; Highlight line with cursorx
(if window-system (scroll-bar-mode 0)) ;; Toggle scroll bar
(require 'mwheel) ;; Toggle mouse wheel support for scrolling
(mouse-wheel-mode 1)
(transient-mark-mode 1) ;; Transient-Mark Mode (highlight selection
(global-linum-mode t) ;; Display line number at left
(line-number-mode 1)
(column-number-mode 1)
;; Text decoration
;; Window resizing bindings
(global-set-key (kbd "S-C-<left>") 'shrink-window-horizontally)
(global-set-key (kbd "S-C-<right>") 'enlarge-window-horizontally)
(global-set-key (kbd "S-C-<down>") 'shrink-window)
(global-set-key (kbd "S-C-<up>") 'enlarge-window)
(provide 'general-settings)
