NonGNU-devel ELPA - zenburn-theme

A port of the popular Vim theme Zenburn for Emacs 24+, built on top
of the new built-in theme support in Emacs 24.

Changelog

master (unreleased)

2.10.0 (2026-06-01)

New features

• Introduce a semantic color palette layered on top of the positional palette. Faces now reference meaning-based names like zenburn-comment, zenburn-string, zenburn-keyword, zenburn-error, and zenburn-diff-added-bg instead of zenburn-green, zenburn-red, etc. Users can remap meanings without touching the base palette via the new zenburn-override-semantic-colors-alist customization. Migrated so far: font-lock, basic success/warning, and the diff section (which also pulls the previously hardcoded diff backgrounds into named entries).
• Style the built-in error face explicitly. A handful of faces (eww-invalid-certificate, git-annex-dired-annexed-unavailable, realgud-bp-enabled-face) already inherited from it but previously picked up stock Emacs's red rather than the Zenburn palette.
• Add completion-preview support (Emacs 30+).
• Add next-error-message (Emacs 28+) and header-line-highlight (Emacs 28+).
• Add read-multiple-choice-face.
• Extend tab-line coverage with tab-line-tab-modified, tab-line-tab-special, tab-line-tab-inactive-alternate, tab-line-tab-group, tab-line-highlight, and tab-line-close-highlight.
• Extend eglot coverage with eglot-mode-line, eglot-parameter-hint-face, and eglot-type-hint-face.
• Add lsp-mode and lsp-ui support.
• Add hl-todo support.
• Add nerd-icons support.
• Add helpful support.
• Add wgrep support.
• Add multiple-cursors support.
• Add eldoc support (eldoc-highlight-function-argument).
• Add pulse support.
• Add treemacs support.
• Add breadcrumb support.
• Add denote support.
• Add jinx support.
• Add symbol-overlay support.
• Add citar support.
• Add corfu-popupinfo face.
• Add flymake-end-of-line-diagnostics-face and flymake-{error,warning,note}-echo faces.

Bug fixes

• Fix three compilation faces that were theming the wrong symbol: compilation-column-face, compilation-error-face, and compilation-warning-face are defcustoms holding face names, not faces themselves, so the theme entries did nothing. Renamed to the real faces compilation-column-number, compilation-error, and compilation-warning.
• Drop ten more dead *-face theme entries that were setting specs on defcustoms instead of faces (no behavioral effect): compilation-face, compilation-info-face, compilation-line-face, compilation-message-face, compilation-enter-directory-face, compilation-leave-directory-face, grep-context-face, grep-error-face, grep-hit-face, grep-match-face, and hl-line-face. Their real targets are either already themed under the correct name or generic faces (shadow, underline) we shouldn't override.

Changes

• Drop face entries for 13 abandoned/superseded third-party packages: ace-jump (use avy), context-coloring, dim-autoload, egg (use magit), guide-key (use which-key), highlight-symbol (use symbol-overlay), irfc, jabber-mode, linum-mode (use built-in display-line-numbers-mode), mew, nav, mumamo (use polymode), sx. Also drop variable settings for company-quickhelp and fci-rule-color (use built-in display-fill-column-indicator-mode).
• Replace the internal z-variable-pitch macro shim with a real zenburn-variable-pitch face that headings inherit from. zenburn-use-variable-pitch still toggles the default behavior (inherit variable-pitch vs default), and users can now also customize zenburn-variable-pitch directly via M-x customize-face for finer-grained control.
• Promote zenburn-use-variable-pitch, zenburn-scale-org-headlines, and zenburn-scale-outline-headlines from plain defvars to boolean defcustoms so they show up in M-x customize-group RET zenburn-theme and accept safe file-local values.
• Drop the legacy ((class color) (min-colors 89)) display-class dance and the obsolete low-color terminal fallbacks (:inverse-video, swapped fg/bg, monochrome :weight bold) for mode-line, region, diff-header, diff-file-header, hl-line, hl-line-face, and hl-sexp-face. Modern terminals all qualify as full-color, so the branching no longer earns its keep. ... ...