Protesilaos Stavrou

Emacs: 'standard-themes' version 2.1.0

The standard-themes are a pair of light and dark themes for GNU Emacs. They emulate the out-of-the-box looks of Emacs (which technically do NOT constitute a theme) while bringing to them thematic consistency, customizability, and extensibility. In practice, the Standard themes take the default style of the font-lock and Org faces, complement it with a wider and harmonious colour palette, address many inconsistencies, and apply established semantic patterns across all interfaces by supporting a large number of packages.

Below are the release notes.

This package is in a stable state. The present release introduces only tweaks and refinements.

The built-in erc package is now supported

This is an IRC client for Emacs that is more feature-rich than its rcirc counterpart (also built-in). The colours used in ERC buffers are now consistest with the rest of theme.

ert test results have the appropriate styles

The built-in ert testing framework for Emacs Lisp code displays its results in a set of colours that are consistent with the rest of the themes.

The ztree package is fully supported

This is a directory viewer that also has the capability to compare the contents of different directories. The colours it uses now follow the established patterns of the themes.

Mu4e folds look a bit different

The characters used by the mu4e email client to show the tree structure of message threads are now draws in a less intense colour. This ensures that the focus in on the message subject lines and accompanying information.

The doom-modeline no longer uses bold+italic combinations

This is because those can clip the edges of icons/symbols used therein.

I was informed about this problem on the issue tracker of my ef-themes by Filippo Argiolas: https://github.com/protesilaos/ef-themes/issues/42.

The Elisp shorthands are easier to spot

This is not a commonly seen feature, though Emacs Lisp can benefit from so-called “shorthands” were long symbol prefixes are substituted by a shorter equivalent. At the theme level, we now render those in italic and in a colour that is not used elsewhere in Elisp code.

Nerd icon directories are more colourful during completion

The nerd-icons-completion package extends coverage of nerd-icons to the minibuffer. File/directory prompts now display directories in the colour that is also used in Dired buffers instead of black/white. This makes the themes more consistent and the icons in the minibuffer less intense.

Org keywords like #+title may be monospaced

If the user option standard-themes-mixed-fonts is set to a non-nil value, then all such keywords will use a monospaced font (inherit from fixed-pitch). This is already done for other code- or metadata- like elements.

The purpose of this user option is to render spacing-sensitive constructs in a monospaced font but allow the user to set the default face to a proportionately spaced font (this can be done on demand with M-x variable-pitch-mode). Without this arrangement, proportionately spaced fonts will produce misalignments in tables, code blocks, et cetera.

Miscellaneous

  • Extended the coverage of shr (built-in) faces to cover shr-mark.
  • Added support for the built-in completions-highlight face (Emacs 29).
  • Removed the underline property from the Gnus implicit buttons, because it can be too distracting.
  • Made changes to the manual, were necessary.
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