[slime-devel] Color-Theme vs Slime

[Jeff Cunningham]

On Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 03:17:56PM -0700, GP lisper wrote:
> 
> It appears that slime overwrites some color-theme variable, making the
> color selection option on the Emacs menu bar (under Tools) pop up this
> error message:
> 
> face-attribute: Wrong type argument: symbolp, (slime-repl-inputed-output-face)
> 
> My default.el has
> 
> ...
> (require 'color-theme)   ; wild colors
> ...
> (require 'slime)
> 
> 
> This has been occurring for awhile, I guess that color-theme is not
> that popular.  I like using colors to help separate what username is
> working on what problem.  Are there better alternatives?


I get the same error message if I try to launch color-themes from the tools menu, but it works fine when I do M-x color-theme-xxx , and it autocompletes on the themes available, so I've just been doing it that way. 

I find some of those themes extremely useful for complicated code work. 

-jeff