Re: Load color-theme in init.el

[nathan . leclaire]

On Saturday, July 21, 2012 12:12:17 PM UTC-4, Patrick Wang wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am using emacs 24.1.1 on Mac OS X Lion. I installed color-theme via emacs 
> package and try to load a color theme in init.el. Therefore I added following 
> lines into my init.el
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>  (require 'color-theme)
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>  (setq color-theme-is-global t)
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>  (color-theme-tty-dark)
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> However, after I restarted emacs, I got an error message "File error: Cannot 
> open load file, color-theme," and color scheme wasn't changed.
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> It seems that init.el is evaluated before packages are loaded. If I evaluate 
> init.el using "eval-buffer" after emacs is launched, color-theme can be found 
> and color will be changed.
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> Can anyone give me a hand? Thanks!
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> Patrick

Patrick, did you ever figure out the solution to this problem?  I am having the 
same issue.  M - x eval-buffer works great for my .emacs file but it won't load 
regularly.

Thanks,

Nathan