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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2001-03-03 22:14:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2001-03-03 22:14:27 +0000 |
| commit | ed50f9668b796b48eb56d0320c7d6bcb20123491 (patch) | |
| tree | dd82fc02cc9d39a832754c07091f4a16f5e9d0fe | |
| parent | cb02ee3e05079e57819619021f65eb843cf65d02 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-ed50f9668b796b48eb56d0320c7d6bcb20123491.tar.gz | |
(Misc Variables): Add example for setting EMACSCOLORS on MS-DOS.
| -rw-r--r-- | man/cmdargs.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
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 |