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From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Forcing emacs to not use 256 colors
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:14:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnXXogTWy-6W-=SSO4PCDY6X+XD8oq-ibF3u6nJz6dNTN+10g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o7kxrwhe.fsf@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.  Just take a look
at the work Protesilaos has put into creating themes covering large
numbers of emacs packages.

The alternative is to have a jarring experience each time one renders
an uncustomized face.

/john



  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-30 15:14 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 [this message]
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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