Re: Forcing emacs to not use 256 colors

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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...