# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1165598561 0
# Node ID 695e5e6b71c1689217c485d45e6e17d823909aec
# Parent  07c34c917584e6beb5d5445824c21380c919a961
(Colors): Note that --color is intended for overriding the terminal defaults,
not for normal invocation.

diff -r 07c34c917584 -r 695e5e6b71c1 man/cmdargs.texi
--- a/man/cmdargs.texi	Fri Dec 08 17:15:58 2006 +0000
+++ b/man/cmdargs.texi	Fri Dec 08 17:22:41 2006 +0000
@@ -951,8 +951,12 @@
 @item --color=@var{mode}
 @opindex --color
 @cindex standard colors on a character terminal
-For a character terminal only, specify the mode of color support.  The
-parameter @var{mode} can be one of the following:
+@cindex override character terminal color support
+For a character terminal only, specify the mode of color support.
+This option is intended for overriding the number of supported colors
+that the character terminal advertises in its @code{termcap} or
+@code{terminfo} database.  The parameter @var{mode} can be one of the
+following:
 @table @samp
 @item never
 @itemx no