Version 4.4.0 of package Modus-Themes has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.
Modus-Themes describes itself as: =============================================== Elegant, highly legible and customizable themes =============================================== More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/modus-themes.html ## Summary: # Modus themes for GNU Emacs IMAGES HERE: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes-pictures>. Highly accessible themes, conforming with the highest standard for colour contrast between background and foreground values (WCAG AAA). They also are optimised for users with red-green colour deficiency. The themes are very customisable and provide support for a very wide range of packages. Their manual is detailed so that new users can get started, while it also provides custom code for all sorts of more advanced customisations. ## Recent NEWS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHANGE LOG OF THE MODUS THEMES FOR GNU EMACS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This document contains the release notes that are included in each tagged commit on the project's main git repository: <https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes>. The newest release is at the top. Since the notes are meant to be in plain text format, I copy them verbatim. For further details, please consult these additional resources: Manual <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes> Screenshots <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes-pictures> 4.4.0 ═════ Before I cover the changes, a brief note about the canonical source of the `modus-themes' source code and corresponding documentation. The `modus-themes' are built into Emacs, as of version 28, but they are not developed in `emacs.git': I maintain my own Git repository (<https://github.com/protesilaos/modus-themes>) and sync with `emacs.git' whenever I publish a new version, such as this one. This means that my code is often ahead of the one in the Emacs tree (including the `master' branch). Similarly, the official manual, which is hosted on my website (<https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes>), covers topics not found in the corresponding `gnu.org' web pages. In the opening section of the manual I include references to the canonical sources, but I still get comments about GNU web pages that I do not control. Please check those links before reporting issues that I can do nothing about. No more SourceHut ───────────────── Development continues on GitHub with GitLab as a mirror. I explained my reasons here: <https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-01-27-sourcehut-no-more/>. This is a change that affects all my Emacs packages. Code blocks now have a background by default ──────────────────────────────────────────── The user option `modus-themes-org-blocks' is obsolete. All code blocks now have a subtle grey background out-of-the-box. The block delimiter lines, such as the `#+begin_src' in Org mode, use the same background as the block's contents. This produces a style that (i) is easy to notice and (ii) employs minimal colouration. Furthermore, we no longer have any discrepancy between Org and similar modes like Markdown. Every theme has relevant semantic palette mappings to affect the underlying faces: • `bg-prose-block-delimiter' • `fg-prose-block-delimiter' • `bg-prose-block-contents' The old `prose-block' is now renamed to `fg-prose-block-delimiter'. Please update any such references in your configuration file. Users can customise those either for all themes via the user option `modus-themes-common-palette-overrides' or on a per-theme basis with something like `modus-operandi-palette-overrides'. The manual includes ready-to-use code samples that showcases the numerous permutations made possible by these new mappings: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes#h:f44cc6e3-b0f1-4a5e-8a90-9e48fa557b50>. The old option to affect the user option `org-src-block-faces' as to have a different background for each specified programming language is no longer available. The previous design was inflexible, as I was hardcoding values for a few languages. Whereas it is better to empower the user with the choice of `language->colour' association. The manual shows how to do this: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes#h:8c842804-43b7-4287-b4e9-8c07d04d1f89>. More semantic mappings more inline code in prose-centric modes ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── For Org, Markdown, and related we have semantic palette mappings that target inline code constructs. For example, in Org we can have text inside of tilde signs to mark it up as code. In prior versions, the mappings were limited to just a foreground, but now they cover … …
