# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 983657667 0
# Node ID a7400c1ee57f0fa1defc8eec4675f3afeaf147de
# Parent  3febda0f0d4be2ea136129bea883e8706b281492
(Misc Variables): Add example for setting EMACSCOLORS on MS-DOS.

diff -r 3febda0f0d4b -r a7400c1ee57f man/cmdargs.texi
--- a/man/cmdargs.texi	Sat Mar 03 20:14:30 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/cmdargs.texi	Sat Mar 03 22:14:27 2001 +0000
@@ -471,7 +471,9 @@
 foreground (the first character) and the background (the second
 character) colors of the default face.  Each character should be the
 hexadecimal code for the desired color on a standard PC text-mode
-display.
+display.  For example, to get blue text on a lightgray backgraound,
+specify @samp{EMACSCOLORS=17}, since 1 is the code of the blue color and
+7 is the code of the lightgray color.
 
 The PC display usually supports only eight background colors.  However,
 Emacs switches the DOS display to a mode where all 16 colors can be used