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(Misc Variables): Add example for setting EMACSCOLORS on MS-DOS.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sat, 03 Mar 2001 22:14:27 +0000
parents 3febda0f0d4b
children a75c13e39706
files man/cmdargs.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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