Some users on #emacs IRC channel on freenode are reporting that color-themes-6.5.4 fails to load from their .emacs startup file. The users have been able to load the file interactively from *scratch*, using both (load "path/to/color-theme") and (require 'color-theme) (this problem has not affected me personally, but I have helped several users with it on #emacs) Temporary fix... If you're reading this because you have experienced this problem, you can do the following to prevent 6.5.4 from being updated on your computer: add the line "=app-emacs/color-theme" to /etc/portage/package.mask then, emerge =app-emacs/color-theme-6.5.2 Please, also make an attempt to communicate with those who are trying to fix the problem. Because this problem is being reported second-hand, it may be difficult to trace. Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge app-emacs/color-theme-6.5.4 2. add either "(load "/usr/share/emacs/site-list/color-theme/color-theme.el") or "(require 'color-theme)" to .emacs 3. Start a new emacs session Actual Results: An error has occurred while loading `/home/ncolgan/.emacs': Wrong type argument: keymapp, nil Expected Results: Loading color-theme...done
User ncolgan@yahoo.com has experienced this problem. This was found at the bottom of his *Messages* backtrace color-theme-backup-original-values: Symbol's function definition is void: color-theme-filter
Hi Sam. Is this related to app-editors/emacs-cvs or app-editors/emacs? I recall seeing this with emacs-cvs (changes in how easymenu works) and included a patch which corrects it. However as I try it now, emacs-cvs works correctly with the color-theme patch, but emacs-21.3 causes two "Tools" menus to appear, the second "Tools" menu contains one entry "Color themes". I haven't been able to reproduce the error you describe though. I'll check this over shortly.
color-themes-6.5.4 do not work with my 21.3-r3 emacs The same sitation as in Description, however i've managed to get over it. I've replaced the /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/color-theme/color-theme.el with a color-theme.el downloaded from: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/GNUEmacsColorThemeTest/color-theme.el.bz2 I've additionally deleted the /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/color-theme/color-theme.elc file but I'm not sure if it's important to the solution.
This is how I fixed it: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2005-01/msg00454.html
I add this problem with GNU Emacs 21.4.1 and color-theme 6.5.4 and Scott Thomson solution works. :)
From what I gather, our patch which changes the "tools" to "Tools" should only be applied in the case that the user has a version 22* series GNU Emacs (ie. CVS). If the user has a stable emacs, version 21*, then the patch should not be applied. I included a version test in the -r1 version of app-emacs/color-theme. Let me know if this fixes the problem.
The patched -r1 version broke my emacs-cvs in a weird way. I now get this message every time I try to run color-theme: face-attribute: Wrong type argument: symbolp, (slime-repl-inputed-output-face)
(In reply to comment #7) Forget it - its doing it with the previous version now. If I stop slime-cvs from loading, it works fine.
I have the same problem four years later. I use: app-emacs/color-theme 6.6.0 app-editors/emacs-cvs 23.0.9999 ~/.emacs is: (load "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/color-theme/color-theme.el") (color-theme-blue-sea) or: (require 'color-theme) (color-theme-blue-sea) In both cases I get no color theme and the following message: Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `/home/christos/.emacs': Symbol's function definition is void: color-theme-blue-sea If I do M-X color-theme-select, I can choose the blue-sea theme and use it. After that, I can also do M-X color-theme-blue-sea or M-X color-theme-whatever, which I could not do before.
Does the following work for you (should go into .emacs): (color-theme-initialize) (color-theme-blue-sea)
Yes, it does. Thank you.
I've added an explanatory message about non-interactive usage to pkg_postinst. Let's consider this bug as fixed. Thank you for reporting.
