vic/color-theme-buffer-local

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vic/color-theme-buffer-local.json

{
  "createdAt": "2012-04-16T05:37:22Z",
  "defaultBranch": "master",
  "description": "Set emacs color themes by buffer.",
  "fullName": "vic/color-theme-buffer-local",
  "homepage": "http://github.com/vic/color-theme-buffer-local",
  "language": "Emacs Lisp",
  "name": "color-theme-buffer-local",
  "pushedAt": "2017-02-20T22:48:08Z",
  "stargazersCount": 82,
  "topics": [
    "color-theme",
    "emacs"
  ],
  "updatedAt": "2025-08-13T09:34:15Z",
  "url": "https://github.com/vic/color-theme-buffer-local"
}

About

This emacs lisp package lets you set a color-theme on a per-buffer basis.

Requirements

This package uses Emacs Face Remapping to installing faces locally on the buffer by means of buffer-face-set and face-remap-set-base functions.

Installation

For color-theme.el themes

M-x package-install color-theme-buffer-local

For emacs24 themes

M-x package-install load-theme-buffer-local

If the above doesn’t work, you may need to configure your Emacs to use the Marmalade repository and try again.

Daily snapshots from the github repo are installable from the MELPA repository

Using themes made for color-theme.el

Interactively

M-x color-theme-buffer-local

Programmatically

(color-theme-buffer-local 'color-theme-robin-hood (current-buffer))

Using themes made for emacs24 themes.

Interactively

M-x load-theme-buffer-local

Programmatically

(load-theme-buffer-local 'misterioso (current-buffer))

Issues

http://github.com/vic/color-theme-buffer-local/issues