Protesilaos Stavrou

Emacs: modus-themes version 4.8.0

I just published the latest stable release of the Modus themes. The change log entry is reproduced further below. For any questions, you are welcome to contact me. I will now work to apply these same changes to emacs.git, so please wait a little longer for the updates to trickle down to you.

4.8.0 on 2025-06-11

This is a small release that corrects a mistake I made in the previous version. It also introduces some minor refinements.

Matching parentheses are easy to spot

In version 4.7.0, I made the mistake of merging some stylistic tweaks to show-paren-mode that I was experimenting with. The idea was to get a feel for how the subtle colouration of matching delimiters affects the usability of the themes. In short, it is not a good default for our purposes (though users have the option to override the applicable colours, as explained in the Modus themes manual).

Thanks to Morgan Willcock for reporting the unwanted change in issue 139: https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes/issues/139.

The bg-paren-match of modus-vivendi-tinted is a bit greener

We go from #5f789f to #4f7f9f. The latter fits better with the rest of the theme.

Refined the “mail” semantic mappings of the tinted themes

This concerns message.el and anything building on top of it, like Gnus, Mu4e, and Notmuch. I made modus-operandi-tinted and modus-vivendi-tinted use two colours that are more in line with the established patterns of their respective theme. The changes are small, but contribute to a more consistent experience.

A new property semantic mapping is available

By default, it uses the same colour as the variable. Users who want to have more refined colouration in supported modes (typically involving tree-sitter), can change the relevant “palette overrides” user option we provide, such as modus-themes-common-palette-overrides or modus-operandi-palette-overrides and related.

Thanks to Alexandr Semenov for requesting this in issue 141: https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes/issues/141.

My tmr package is now supported

Its faces were already consistent with the Modus themes, though now I cover them at the theme level to subject them to palette overrides.

The “ancient” Gnus messages are styled properly

Those are only ever seen if the user configures Gnus in a certain way and follows a specific workflow. They now get a subtle foreground value. This is in response to the issue 119 by sivaramn: https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes/issues/119.

The modus-themes-rotate command can now go backwards

When called with a prefix argument (C-u by default), this command will rotate the modus-themes-to-rotate from right to left. Otherwise, it goes from left to right.

Thanks to Jacob S. Gordon for the contribution. It was sent as a patch as part of issue 143: https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes/issues/143.

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