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Easy color theme loading

Wheew. Switching from VIM to Emacs was easier than expected - few days of getting used to different keyboard shortcuts (which feel more natural than VIM's) and it looks like I can use it without any disruptions.
Obviously I'm not at the same level of control as with VIM, but strangely - I'm picking it up a lot faster.
Additionaly - many VIM habbits can be easily transfered to Emacs (deleting words, navigation, how the copy/paste functions work, etc).

One thing I find much better in Emacs is the scripting language which drives the whole editor. Vimscript doesn't come near close to elisp - in both syntax and abilities. It can be clearly seen that vimscript is an afterthought.

Elisp makes Emacs so easy to customize, and it seems like there are no limits where you can go with these customizations (obviously - common sense is the limit ;-)).

If there's something you need to do in Emacs - you can do it.

I'm a color-scheme/theme freak. White background simply doesn't work for me. Ugly, standard colors for keyword as well.
I like trying out new ones and I'm still searching for the perfect one. On the other hand - I always come back to the theme insipred/based on famous Monokai color scheme.

Unfortunately the themes bundled with color-theme.el (emcas plugin enabling you to use and change color themes) don't suit my taste at all. VIM and its community is so much batter in that regard (both in quality and numbers).
After googling around I found some cool ones (including the mentioned Monokai port) and started installing them.

Hold up... Vim clearly got this part right:
:colorscheme molokai
Done.

Emacs requires you to:
1. Include the color-theme library (it's not included in the Emacs23 OSX build)
2. Load it
3. Save somewhere your theme file
4. Load the theme file
5. Call a theme loading function

Wait... What?

It's clear that Emacs is not a simple application, but for such a trivial feature it seems to be quite an overkill.
Or maybe it's just me.

LMFTFY: