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Indradhanush Gupta
Indradhanush Gupta

Reputation: 4237

How to fix "Symbol's function definition is void" while loading up a color theme in emacs24?

When I load my .emacs, although the color theme, twilight, loads up fine, but it shows me this error message: 

Symbol's function definition is void: color-theme-twilight

In my .emacs I have put the following lines to add the color theme:

(require 'color-theme)
(setq color-theme-is-global t)
(color-theme-initialize)
(color-theme-twilight)

The color-theme-twilight.el file lives in ~/.emacs.d/themes/

I looked at this question. But the solution there is a correction to a typo. But I am not making that typo. I am on emacs24. What is the problem?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 28931

Answers (3)

Indradhanush Gupta
Indradhanush Gupta

Reputation: 4237

Solved the problem. Removed all the lines :

(require 'color-theme)
(setq color-theme-is-global t)
(color-theme-initialize)
(color-theme-twilight)

And just added: 

(load-file "~/.emacs.d/themes/color-theme-twilight.el")

The problem was the last line: 

(color-theme-twilight)

Other three lines are not required at all. Not sure if this is the most elegant solution.

Upvotes: 7

Drew
Drew

Reputation: 30701

You say "The color-theme-twilight.el file lives in ~/.emacs.d/themes/." But I don't see where you load that file. Add (require 'color-theme-twilight) to your init file, and make sure color-theme-twilight.el is in your load-path.

Upvotes: 0

juanleon
juanleon

Reputation: 9380

If you are using emacs 24, I think you could change the 4 lines you include by this single line:

(load-theme 'twilight t)

No extra requires; this use the emacs 24 theme approach.

If you are using a recent version of twilight, that should give you no error.

Upvotes: 0

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