Plan 9 Acme colour theme for Emacs

A theme that tries to emulate the colour scheme in Plan 9. We eschew syntax highlighting by means of colours and instead try to embrace typographic elements.

Why

I am writing it mainly because I like Acme. I also like the extensibility and composability of emacs. I like to marry the advantages of the two. Emacs already provides (by design) the kind of extensibility provided by Acme but in a different way -- by means of emacs lisp processes etc where as Acme embrace the filesystem approach and extensibility via any programming language. The thing that tilts me in favour of emacs is my own familiarity with it and the fact that it is more keyboard oriented. While text commands can be easily attached to Acme, it needs heavy use of mouse and chording. I am yet to find a good mouse that can work well with acme. I have tried everything from evoluent to various gaming mice and didn't find it to be a good user experience. That might be a personal thing. But hey, that's why I am writing this mode because Emacs is very easily extensible and this sounded like a way to learn some emacs lisp, which I haven't used for a while.

Install

It is too early at the moment. The way I use it is by creating a directory called ~/.emacs.d/themes/ and then putting the acme-theme.el file there. After that, in the ~/.emacs.d/init.el, I call

(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/themes")
(load-theme 'acme t)

Obligatory screenshot