Bat already has a base16 theme. The new base16-256 theme is for users
of base16-shell, who configure their terminal with a 256-color variant
of a base16 theme. These variants put some of the base16 colors in
elsewhere in the 256-color table to avoid clobbering bright color slots
(ansi codes 8 to 15) with colors that don't respect the ordinary meaning
of that slot (e.g. bright green in ordinary base16 is not green).
For more details, see https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell
## [why]
For 'windows' platforms, directly spawning a process (eg, called PATHNAME) bypasses the
usual windows shell machinery for determining which process to execute. Specifically,
the extensions in PATHEXT will not be used to determine the final executable. So,
`PATHNAME.bat`, `PATHNAME.cmd`, ... will *not* be executed even if on they exist on the
PATH; and this is counter to the usual expectation of a Windows user. Additionally,
built-in commands, such as `echo` and `dir`, will never be accessible as they do not
have a PATH to execute and, so, will never be found.
To use the usual machinery, giving access to PATHNAME.bat and `echo`, execute the PATHNAME
using the windows shell, eg `cmd /d/c PATHNAME`. Note this may expose the constructed
command line to the windows shell quoting vagaries (sadly, that may be part of the price).
Following Windows standards, the ComSpec environment variable is used to determine which
shell to use, with a fallback to the "modern", built-in `cmd` shell.
