From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Forcing emacs to not use 256 colors
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:58:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83leg0sroz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJnXXogTWy-6W-=SSO4PCDY6X+XD8oq-ibF3u6nJz6dNTN+10g@mail.gmail.com> (message from John Yates on Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:14:28 -0400)
> From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:14:28 -0400
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> > If you don't like the default colors themselves, isn't it better to
> > customize the faces to use the colors you like?
>
> Properly done, that is an enormous undertaking.
Not if you only ever customize the faces you care about. Let's not
gratuitously exaggerate the problem, okay?
> Just take a look at the work Protesilaos has put into creating
> themes covering large numbers of emacs packages.
Themes customize most if not all faces, something individual users
will never need to do.
Of course, the best is to just use the defaults: they are, after all,
well thought-out...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-30 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20230628115134.6f5874ca@fecfc4134a3d>
2023-06-28 15:51 ` Forcing emacs to not use 256 colors Tom Noonan II
2023-06-30 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-30 15:14 ` John Yates
2023-06-30 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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