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Add horizontal line to every line

I recently saw this image on r/unixporn. How can I recreate the 'notebook' effect: the broad line-height and underline of each line, but in Emacs (iiuc this is achieved using rxvt + pixmaps in Linux).
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How to write a theme from all known faces?

I'd like to write a theme from all known faces (face colors and styles - as one would typically find in a theme). There is a way to write themes customize-create-theme, however it only writes some ...
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How to associate a theme to a file extension?

It is kind of similar to this question How do I automatically load a mode for a specific set of file extensions? So I am in a situation where, when I want to write in TeX, I want to use 'whiteboard' ...
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Activate doom mode line theme on non doom theme

I would like to use a non doom theme on Emacs but I like the doom mode line. The problem is if I use a non doom dark theme, say Charcoal-Black, and activate doom mode line, then doom mode line is ...
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Custom theme only loads changes every second start-up

Using Emacs 26.3. I made a theme file. If I change the theme, then restart Emacs the change is not applied. I have to close Emacs a second time, and then only on the second start up does the change ...
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Change the color of delimiters of agenda view

I use the theme "doom-one" which displays the org-agenda-view as: The color delimiters is gray which not very obvious to distinguish every range. On the theme of doom-dark+, the delimiter is of ...
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Customize variable: custom-theme-load-path[no match]

I followed instruction here to erase customization. however, it returns [no-match]. am i doing anything wrong here? The reason that I was trying to erase the custom-theme-load-path is that I failed ...
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Change theme when OS dark mode changes?

VS Code recently added the ability to switch themes when macOS's dark mode changes. Presumably they use the Electron API, which internally uses the Objective-C API of subscribing to the ...
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How to make helm matching faces inherit from ivy?

I like Ivy face when matching better than helm for the particular theme I am using. When listing all faces: list-faces-display I see that I want helm matching to be exactly like: ivy-minibuffer-...
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Are both `load-file-name` and `custom-theme-load-path` needed here?

This is a bit of code I saw in a custom theme file, and at first glance it looks (to me) overly defensive, checking that both load-file-name and custom-theme-load-path are set. ;;;###autoload (and ...
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Required color-theme file missing in Emacs 26

After upgrading my OS (Ubuntu, from 18.04 to 19.04), my favorite text editor was automatically upgraded from Emacs 25 to Emacs 26. I then encountered a familiar error message at start-up: File is ...
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Org-mode source blocks are not fontified same as the corresponding language

i am using Zerodark theme and in my org files I noticed that source blocks (emacs-lisp) are not fontified same as when opening an actual lisp file. I already have this setting: (setq org-src-...
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How to change color of Python “None” and Booleans for digital-ofs1 color theme

I'm trying to change the color of Python None and Boolean variables in the digital-ofs1 color scheme, but can't find which variable to change. I've Googled around to no avail and can't seem to solve ...
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How to activate leuven-dark-theme?

I have installed leuven with melpa a while ago and updated it as of 31st of August 2019. I found out there is a dark version. How do I activate it at loading of Emacs? I have tried: (add-to-list '...
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how to tell a Custom Theme vs Color Theme?

I am considering changing the look of my emacs (just default state right now). I've read that Color Theme is an older approach but has its own advantages compared to Custom Theme (newer approach). One ...
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Disable GTK faces in Emacs

My Emacs version is GNU Emacs 26.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.10). My region face looks like this. Two things stand out: The region face is unreadable. The DistantForeground ...
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Why is my custom theme properties for evil-search-highlight-persist-highlight-face not being reflected on that face?

I am using spacemacs with evil mode. If I type /example, then ENTER, I will see all words matching example highlighted on the page. If I move my cursor within one of those example words and type ...
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Can a theme set faces normally provided by another package?

I want to produce a custom theme. I understand how to set built-in faces, like font-lock-nnn ones, modeline, etc. I wonder if I can provide colors for faces that are defined by other packages, e.g. ...
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How to remove a sub-theme?

Is it possible to remove a sub-theme so that it does not appear in the theme list when invoking load-theme or customize-themes? For instance removing only doom-spacegrey from the doom theme-set, ...
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Prevent current line from being underlined

I switched from the default theme to wombat and now the current line is highlighted and underlined. With the default theme, it is only highlighted My init.el file has: (global-hl-line-mode 1) How ...
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emacs ediff show all buffer diff word-wise (like vimdiff)

Issue description When launching Ediff color scheme is very poor and i do not have word wise diff highlight. It seems that diff color faces are not activated at ediff startup. I use emacs -Q to ...
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custom-theme-set-faces does not work in emacs 27

I have some custom theme settings like (package-initialize) (load-theme 'leuven t) (custom-theme-set-faces 'leuven '(Man-overstrike ((t (:foreground "red3" :bold t))) t) '(Man-underline ((t (...
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Org-mode: How to display current time record in another color?

I'm still very new to emacs and currently use it on the terminal to track my work time in org-mode. ** Save the world :LOGBOOK: CLOCK: [2019-02-14 Do 10:24] CLOCK: [2019-02-14 Do 08:51]--[2019-02-14 ...
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Different color theme for scratch buffer

I'd like my *scratch* buffer to have it's own color theme, different to the one I use elsewhere, so that I know when I'm working there. How can I do this?
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Cannot set default theme. Dark theme even if loaded without .emacs and without .emacs.d

When I load emacs without any configuration I see a dark theme: There is no way for me to get back to the default theme. I tried the following: M-x disable-theme: no theme is enabled M-x ...
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I want the color-theme to highlight the text in the buffers but not change the colors in the menu bar

I loaded a color-theme (manoj-dark) to highlight text in the buffers but it also changed the color of the menu bar. Now the menu bar icons are setting in a black background and the title bar of the ...
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Adding box around text without changing the text width

The documentation of Face Attributes suggests that adding a line-width of -n to the box attribute will draw a line of width n whose top and bottom parts occupy the space of the underlying text, ...
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Get asked to confirm safe theme forever

I created a theme which I stored in ~/.emacs.d/themes/, added this directory to custom-theme-load-path, and put (load-theme "the-theme.el") in my init.el. Now restarting emacs, I get prompted whether ...
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running emacs as a daemon does not load custom-set-faces?

I am starting with emacs --daemon in my session, and it seems to trigger some odd behavior regarding themes and faces. I am using this solarized theme but I have found it to have weird cursor issues. ...
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List of themes available in Spacemacs

helm-themes loads the themes present in custom-load-themes which are coming from custom-theme-load-path (as per C-h f helps) After installing themes mega-pack, the list is the following : Available ...
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How to change the font color of popup in haskell layer

I am not good at emacs because using spacemacs only for haskell coding. I want to change the font color of popup from white to black. White text on yellow popup is too hard to read. It's solarized ...
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How can one make Emacs visually look like sublime?

I found the following post: http://www.gonsie.com/blorg/subl-to-emacs.html#the-best-from-sublime-text I copied the code to my .emacs but it didn't work. Why? code: (eval-after-load "color-theme" ...
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Can't Load Custom Theme

I am currently using Zenburn. My .emacs file contains (require 'package) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/")) (add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/...
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Keyboard shortcuts for applying a theme [duplicate]

I want to bind loading a specific theme to a key-binding. However, this does not work. (global-set-key (kbd "C-<f1>") '(load-theme 'zenburn)) I would like Ctrl and the F1 key to apply the ...
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Atom Dark Theme Not Applied Completely

I run emacs from my xfce4 (version 0.8.7.4) terminal on my Linux machine. When I applied the atom-one-dark-theme, I noticed that below the information bar it did not apply that colouring of the theme ...
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My theme's default face is ignored

I recently changed my Linux distribution (from an old Opensuse 13.1 to Linux Mint 19, which comes with "GNU Emacs 25.2.2 of 2017-09-22, modified by Debian"), and now my very basic theme is not working ...
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(orgmode) Coloring the line for the whole heading

I want the entire line containing a heading in orgmode to be the background color of that heading. So for instance right now I have is what is shown in Heading 1 and 2, but what I want looks like ...
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How to make everything except the text transparent?

How to make everything except the text transparent?
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tabbar with theme

I want to remove a white border of the tabbar. (The strange color choice is only for checking the configuration of faces.) As you can see, the right part of tabbar has a white border and I can not ...
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Syntax highlighting not working in Emacs (in Python mode)

When I Python-mode I have noticed that occasionally my syntax highlighting is not working. I have noticed this when using the Cyberpunk theme as well as the Tango-Dark theme. Closing and reopening ...
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Retain system color scheme when running without GUI

I'm typically running emacs -nw: problem is that Emacs overrides terminal (bash) color scheme and uses it's own default one which is in some cases unreadable. I would like emacs to use default ...
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Different themes in different modes

I would like to do the following: load some theme when working on a particular kind of source file (say, Haskell), but elsewhere use a different "default" theme. I naively imagine that this is ...
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some set-face-attribute not being applied when I create a new frame using C-x 5 2

I've a few set-face-attribute statements inside eval-after-load blocks inside my zenburn theme configuration. These are working fine when I startup emacs using emacsclient. But, when I create a new ...
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Which mode-line package(s) is/are most extendable?

My question: Hi, lately I've been looking into various mode-line customization packages such as Smart Mode Line, Powerline, Spaceline, or Telephone Line. I'd like to write a package that works ...
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Custom theme based on major mode or file type

How can I customize emacs to use a different theme based on major mode or file-type? And, could it work to have different themes active in different windows? My use case would be: have (1) one ...
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M-x menu display like spacemacs

For some reason, I am not getting spacemacs. But I need the feature that when I do M-x, it displays the column of menu of commands, which I can select from using direction keys (Up and Down) and ...
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Emacs Terminal vs Emacs GUI: different look & feel for the same theme

Whenever I install a theme, I notice it odes not appear exactly the same way on Emacs Terminal and Emacs GUI. For example, I installed this theme recently, and it behaves as the previous ones I ...
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Load custom highlighting after colorscheme change

I am a Vim user and i recently decided to try Emacs Spacemacs, i have a problem setting up custom highlighting, i set some lines like the following in my .spacemacs (i guess it's the same problem in ...
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Emacs custom themes overview

Quick question, and happy to delete if not in scope. I use the load-theme command to change the theme of Emacs to one of the custom themes. Is there a place that gives a (visual) overview of the ...
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Themes in emacs-nox displaying bottom part of frame black instead of background color

Edit: I tried many themes and it was an issue for all of them so this is not a Zenburn specific issue. Edit: Docker is not part of the issue as there is the same behavior when this is done using just ...

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