From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Forcing emacs to not use 256 colors Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:58:20 +0300 Message-ID: <83leg0sroz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20230628115134.6f5874ca@fecfc4134a3d> <0100018902b4043c-e3851df4-1be4-4dbb-b58b-22fcd8412452-000000@email.amazonses.com> <83o7kxrwhe.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40513"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 30 20:58:30 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qFJKA-000AGH-2J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:58:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qFJJZ-0003IO-4u; Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:57:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qFJJX-0003Dh-2d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:57:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qFJJW-0005xu-Qj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:57:50 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=HT/ZYqk46blTbDPDuui+aSrPgPEH3mYzVyvTlPXxffM=; b=PnvrwytSO6Pl OjqEfxJbKNSDAUiwV6AqzTujawDPx8x1i19/o0/iaGJV1Lld472Jm1w4NgwF+JovcY+SyoHfN5e9e AsdR+TGjKkda9UxoimoCfLxHEDyOFmEnIwYrHMIBPdcNbqR1OiT3DDb277Q0mZFXzfbwXBEInKR+y /vr6XlydQrY26mdsobpVNYCKtAfdja9NomdQte1WqsdJaPwZDRy51d02mqInuWwKZz5EvYB3znFc7 lEI/W4sKEE7KHq6GA8Knjda4Y7ks//N/7CQP4hYzpzuWvjQ7E4OPjl4Pw5gepRgKKjLepkdFadvWV Zkfbjdgk7sdwhZ1IVrLiDw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qFJJW-0000cc-Ek for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:57:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from John Yates on Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:14:28 -0400) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144070 Archived-At: > From: John Yates > 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...