From ed50f9668b796b48eb56d0320c7d6bcb20123491 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 22:14:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Misc Variables): Add example for setting EMACSCOLORS on MS-DOS. --- man/cmdargs.texi | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man/cmdargs.texi b/man/cmdargs.texi index b0c3fd6d568..f8035df9712 100644 --- 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 -- 2.39.5