Symbol's value as variable is void: theme about zenburn-emacs

[bbatsov]

You should use load-theme instead of load theme...

Cheers,
Bozhidar

On Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Denis Haine wrote:

Hi,
I put the zenburn-theme in the /.emacs.d/themes directory and add this to my .emacs:
(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "/.emacs.d/themes/")
(load theme 'zenburn t)
When starting emacs I have the following error message:
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading /home/denis/.emacs': Symbol's value as variable is void: theme After starting emacs with --debug-init, here's the message: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable theme) (load theme (quote zenburn) t) eval-buffer(# nil "/home/denis/.emacs" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 28583 load-with-code-conversion("/home/denis/.emacs" "/home/denis/.emacs" t t) load("~/.emacs" t t) #[0 "^H\205\262^@ \306=\203^Q^@\307^H\310Q\202;^Q \311=\204^^^@\307^H\312Q\202;^@\313\307\314\315#\203*^@\316\202;^@\313\307\314\317#\203:^@\320\nB^R\321\202;^@\316\322^S\323^A\322\211#\210^K\322=\203a^@\324\325\326\307^H\327Q!\"\323^A\322\211#\210^K\322=\203^@^A^S\210^K\203\243^@\330^K!\331\232\203\243^@\332^K!\211\333P\334^A!\203}^@\211\202\210^@\334^B!\203\207^@^A\202\210^@\314\262^B^A\203\241^@\335^B^K\"\203\237^@\336\337^C^K#\210\340\341!\210^A^S\266^B\f?\205\260^@\314^]\323\342\322\211#)\262^A\207" [init-file-user system-type delayed-warnings-list user-init-file inhibit-default-init inhibit-startup-screen ms-dos "~" "/_emacs" windows-nt "/.emacs" directory-files nil "^\\.emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" (initialization "_emacs' init file is deprecated, please use.emacs'") "~/_emacs" t load expand-file-name "init" file-name-as-directory "/.emacs.d" file-name-extension "elc" file-name-sans-extension ".el" file-exists-p file-newer-than-file-p message "Warning: %s is newer than %s" sit-for 1 "default"] 7 "\n\n(fn)"]()
command-line()
normal-top-level()
Any idea what cause this? The theme doesn't load. Thanks!
Denis

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[dhaine]

Yes you're right, sorry. But I still have the same issue.

[dhaine]

Sorry, I made a mistake when copying the zenburn-theme.el file. I copied it properly and it's running fine now. Sorry for any inconvenience and thanks for your help!
Cheers.