This emacs lisp package lets you set a color-theme on a per-buffer basis.
This package uses Emacs Face Remapping to installing faces locally on the buffer by means of buffer-face-set
and face-remap-set-base
functions.
For color-theme.el themes
M-x package-install color-theme-buffer-local
For emacs24 themes
M-x package-install load-theme-buffer-local
If the above doesn't work, you may need to configure your Emacs to use the Marmalade repository and try again.
Daily snapshots from the github repo are installable from the MELPA repository
Interactively
M-x color-theme-buffer-local
Programmatically
(color-theme-buffer-local 'color-theme-robin-hood (current-buffer))
Interactively
M-x load-theme-buffer-local
Programmatically
(load-theme-buffer-local 'misterioso (current-buffer))