How to treat my custom emacs theme as a "safe theme"?

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Daniel Duan picture Daniel Duan · Dec 17, 2011 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

I'm new to Emacs.

So, I'm using emacs 24 and solarized color theme.

When Emacs starts up, it prompt me with "Loading a theme can run Lisp code, really load?".

When I answer with "yes", it continues to "Treat this theme as safe in future sessions?".

If I say "y", the theme gets loaded, and 

(custom-set-variables
    (custome-safe-themes (quote ("..." default))))

gets added to ~/.emacs automatically.

However, those questions come back every time I open Emacs!

What's the proper way to turn those off?

Answer

sanityinc picture sanityinc · Dec 17, 2011

If you use M-x customize-themes to set and save your preferred theme, then everything should work nicely.

If, instead, you've added code to your .emacs to enable the theme, but that code appears earlier in the file than the custom-set-variables command, then that might be the problem.

You can force Emacs to load a theme without prompting you to confirm its safety by using the load-theme function's NO-CONFIRM flag:

(load-theme 'solarized-light t)

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