From: "Tom Noonan II" <tom@tjnii.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Forcing emacs to not use 256 colors
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:51:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0100018902b4043c-e3851df4-1be4-4dbb-b58b-22fcd8412452-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20230628115134.6f5874ca@fecfc4134a3d
Good day:
I'm a long time emacs user and I'm used to the default 16 color syntax
highlighting. I recently upgraded my system which brought in 256 color
support, and I find the new syntax highlighting colors distasteful. I
also dislike how the colors may be completely different depending on if
I'm using a 16 color terminal or a 256 color terminal. I'd like to
force emacs to only use 16 color or less palettes.
I took a look at M-x customize-themes but that doesn't look like what I
want. That appears to be changing the overall theme, including
foreground and background colors. I want to force the default, non
-256color behavior everywhere, not change the overall coloring.
I tried searching but the results are getting flooded out with posts on
how to enable 256 colors. Is there a way to disable these 256color
specific syntax highlighting pallettes? Or otherwise limit the color
mapping to the various $TERM values?
--Tom Noonan II
next parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-28 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20230628115134.6f5874ca@fecfc4134a3d>
2023-06-28 15:51 ` Tom Noonan II [this message]
2023-06-30 12:00 ` Forcing emacs to not use 256 colors Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-30 15:14 ` John Yates
2023-06-30 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-01 6:50 ` tomas
2023-07-01 8:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-02 8:04 ` tomas
2023-07-02 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-02 8:47 ` Gregory Heytings
[not found] ` <20230704160635.306eedbe@fecfc4134a3d>
2023-07-04 20:06 ` Tom Noonan II
2023-07-05 4:03 ` Platon Pronko
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