Installation & Activation
Get up and running with one command through the builtin package manager or manual setup
This is a living document which means it is work in progress, not completed yet and can change at any time while the project is still in development major version zero
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Emacs in terminal mode must be used with a Nord terminal emulator theme in order to work properly!
Make sure to install one of the currently supported terminal emulator port projects before installing Nord Emacs.
Emacs in terminal mode uses the 16 color codes provided by the terminal emulator.
When used with another color theme than one of Nord's terminal emulator ports, Emacs won't use the color of Nord's color palettes!
This will result in different styles than those defined by Nord Emacs making it appear that there is a problem with Nord Emacs while the actual problem are missing Nord terminal color definitions.
Read the GitHub Gist about terminal colors for more information about terminal color specifications.
Installation
Thanks to the builtin Emacs package manager, Nord Emacs can be installed for all platforms and the various variants/forks of Emacs in a uniform way with one command.
To install or update Nord Emacs
- press M-x
- run the
package-install
command - type
nord-theme
and confirm with ↲
See Emacs official package install documentations for more details how to use the builtin package management.
Manual
To install Nord Emacs manually, download the latest version or clone the repository.
Afterwards copy the nord-theme.el
file into the .emacs.d/themes
folder located in your home directory.
Activation
Make sure the ~/.emacs.d/themes
directory has been added to Emacs load path by adding it to the list in your init file (.init.el
):
(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/themes/"))
To activate and use Nord Emacs as your default color theme load it in your init file:
(load-theme 'nord t)
To switch to the theme on-the-fly
- press M-x
- run the
load-theme
command - type
nord
and confirm with ↲