(Misc Variables): Add example for setting EMACSCOLORS on MS-DOS.

diff --git a/man/cmdargs.texi b/man/cmdargs.texi
index b0c3fd6d5688c99552577bace9edfd5b9dceba4e..f8035df97121cc2864eb478714621b1221c5a2be 100644 (file)
--- a/man/cmdargs.texi
+++ b/man/cmdargs.texi
@@ -471,7 +471,9 @@ The value of this variable should be the two-character encoding of the
 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