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title: display-graphic-p, cl-letf and themes
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tags: emacs, elisp
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date: 2014-10-27 21:18
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format: md
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I had a problem with my
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[theme](https://github.com/ryuslash/yoshi-theme) a while where the
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colors would be different depending on whether I was starting Emacs as
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a daemon or not. The `colors` module has some code that changes the
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way it works depending on whether a graphical or non-graphical display
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is run. This was messing with some of the colors in my theme.
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My first thought was that it should just wait until the first frame is
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created before setting the theme. For a while this worked.
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``` emacs-lisp
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(if (daemonp)
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(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions
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(lambda (frame) (load-theme 'yoshi t)))
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(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook (lambda () (load-theme 'yoshi t))))
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```
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Some time later, that stopped working, because apparently
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`display-graphic-p` stopped returning true during the execution of the
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`after-make-frame-functions` hook. So I set out to change it so it
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would work again. This would have been easy in earlier versions of
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Emacs, where `flet` wasn't yet deprecated.
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``` emacs-lisp
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(if (daemonp)
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(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions
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(lambda (frame)
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(flet ((display-graphic-p () t))
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(load-theme 'yoshi t))))
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(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook (lambda () (load-theme 'yoshi t))))
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```
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Unfortunately, as stated, `flet` is deprecated. Whenever you compile
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it you're warned and told that you should use `cl-flet` or `cl-letf`
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instead. I couldn't quite figure out how, though. `cl-flet` does
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almost the same thing as `flet`, but lexically, so you can't
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dynamically rebind `display-graphic-p` that way. `cl-letf` did't seem
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to be anything like `flet` at all, so I didn't know how to ever use
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that to accomplish this.
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Thankfully, there was
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[noflet](https://github.com/nicferrier/emacs-noflet). This, for my
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purposes at least, works the same way as `flet` did. It is not part of
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Emacs, however. But in this case I didn't know what else to do.
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``` emacs-lisp
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(if (daemonp)
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(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions
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(lambda (frame)
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(noflet ((display-graphic-p (&optional display) t))
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(load-theme 'yoshi t))))
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(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook (lambda () (load-theme 'yoshi t))))
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```
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This worked perfectly, but I really don't like depending on external
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packages for starting up emacs.
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Then Artur Malabarba wrote a
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[post](http://endlessparentheses.com/understanding-letf-and-how-it-replaces-flet.html)
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about using `cl-letf` and things became very clear.
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``` emacs-lisp
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(if (daemonp)
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(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions
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(lambda (frame)
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(cl-letf (((symbol-function 'display-graphic-p))
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(lambda (&optional display) t))
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(load-theme 'yoshi-theme t))))
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(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook (lambda () (load-theme 'yoshi-theme t))))
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```
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It's a bit more involved than the `noflet` solution, but it does
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remove a requirement from my `init.el`. What I failed to realize
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before reading Artur's post is that `cl-letf` works a lot like Emacs'
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new `setf`, which works a lot like Common Lisp's `setf`, which makes
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it very powerful.
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By now, my theme doesn't use the colors module anymore.
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