About

Monokai for Emacs is a port of the popular TextMate theme Monokai by Wimer Hazenberg. The inspiration for the theme came from Bozhidar Batsov and his Zenburn port and Sublime Text 2 which defaults to this color scheme.

I like the colors and I like Emacs. This followed.

The theme uses built-in theming support available Emacs 24 and later.

I recommend using Prelude in conjunction with this theme. Bozhidar Batsov has done some awesome work in making Emacs beautiful and accessable to a newcomer.

Installation

Manual

Download monokai-theme.el to the directory ~/.emacs.d/themes/. Add this to your .emacs:

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

Now you can load the theme with the interactive function load-theme like this:

M-x load-theme RET monokai

Package.el

Monokai is available in both Marmalade and MELPA. Keep in mind the fact the version in the Marmalade repo may not always be up-to-date.

You can install monokai with the following command:

M-x package-install monokai-theme

To load it automatically on Emacs startup add this to your init file:

(load-theme 'monokai t)

Customization

Please see full list of variables in the defcustom section.

i.e.:

  (setq ;; foreground and background
        monokai-fg             "#ABB2BF"
        monokai-bg             "#282C34"
        ;; highlights and comments
        monokai-comments       "#F8F8F0"
        monokai-emphasis       "#282C34"
        monokai-highlight      "#FFB269"
        monokai-highlight-alt  "#66D9EF"
        monokai-highlight-line "#1B1D1E"
        monokai-linum          "#F8F8F0"
        ;; colours
        monokai-blue           "#61AFEF"
        monokai-cyan           "#56B6C2"
        monokai-green          "#98C379"
        monokai-gray           "#3E4451"
        monokai-violet         "#C678DD"
        monokai-red            "#E06C75"
        monokai-orange         "#D19A66"
        monokai-yellow         "#E5C07B")

Windows

If your're experiencing font issues using org-mode on Windows with emacs 25 try add this to your init.el or equivalent file:

    (add-hook 'after-init-hook '(lambda () (load-theme 'monokai t)))

    ;; FIX: Invalid font in org-mode on Windows
    (when (and sys/win32p (> emacs-major-version 24))
      (add-hook 'window-setup-hook '(lambda () (load-theme 'monokai t))))

For more info check this thread: Invalid font in org-mode

Bugs & Improvements

Please, report any problems that you find on the projects integrated issue tracker. If you've added some improvements and you want them included upstream please send a pull request.

Thank you,<br> Kelvin

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