How to install emacs colortheme

I found this website and downloaded the color-theme files. I开发者_高级运维t says:

Put the file color-theme.el and the folder “themes” (with the files color-theme-example.el and color-theme-library.el) in a directory on your LoadPath.

and then I checked the load path website, which says:

To add a single directory to the load-path:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/")

My question is, where do I type this line? If I do M-x and then type, it complains add-to-list[No match].

By the way, I am using Emacs 23.2(9.0) on Mac, a GUI version. For the text version on terminal, I use black background seems fine, except the blue is too dark on black

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An answer for newbs like me!

In Emacs 24.5.1, on mac or linux the following will work.

The following command will create a folder called themes inside your .emacs.d folder (assuming one does not already exist)

mkdir ~/.emacs.d/themes/

Now tell emacs that you have installed a themes folder. In emacs open your .emacs file, by typing the following:

C-x C-f ;;;this opens a new .emacs file or creates one if it doesn't exist

Add the following line to your .emacs file:

(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/themes/") 

Now copy your theme's '.el' file to your .emacs.d/themes/ directory. A good place to find custom themes is here: emacsthemes.com

Now load your custom theme by typing the following:

M-x customize-themes ;;;now press return

Your newly installed themes should appear on the list like so:

Move your cursor to within the '[ ]' and press return to select that theme.

Enjoy emacs!

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You can download Emacs 24 for Mac from here and Emacs 24 already has a built-in theming system. You can call it by M-x customize-themes and choose whatever themes you like. And you can find much more themes online. There is actually a quite nice theme called "solarized", you can use it both in GUI and command line.

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I load color theme by this code:

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

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You should put that line in your init file. This is usually the file ~/.emacs. The .emacs.d directory is a conventional directory for storing your personal customization files. Many of the instructions for installing packages (like color theme) or explaining other parts of Emacs (like the load-path page) assume you understand the init file.

.emacs and .emacs.d are really at the core of Emacs customization. If you read up on those, Emacs will make a lot more sense. I hope that helps!

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In emacs 23, I thought color theme is installed by default. If not, and you need to add that line, write it in either file ~/.emacs.d/init.el, ~/.emacs.el or ~/.emacs