title: Changing Color Themes Emacs 24 -- order matters
body: <p>In emacs 24, the order that color themes are applied seems to matter. This is obvious if you do M-x color-theme-select. The order that you ic</p>
  
  <p>Does anybody have any insight into this issue?</p>
  
  <p>I'd like to be able to switch between the following color themes without restarting:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>solarized-light</li>
  <li>solarized-dark</li>
  <li>zenburn</li>
  <li>railscasts</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I guess I need the equivalent of a css-reset for emacs. 
  One other tip that is invaluable is that if you use evil, then you need this line or else your cursor stays black, which is horrible for the dark themes:</p>
  
  <pre><code>(setq evil-default-cursor t) 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is a related issue: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4914014/switching-between-color-themes-in-emacs">Switching between color themes in Emacs ( &lt; v.24)</a>. I am using Emacs 24.0. I'm posting this question because I'm looking for workaround for pre 24.1, or maybe advice if 24.1 is stable enough.</p>