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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2006-12-08 17:22:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2006-12-08 17:22:41 +0000 |
| commit | ec9e31298a8d5d018f02ece050b3ec808e2791aa (patch) | |
| tree | 72d7666793e6064be4aada7df0c316e89de35a42 /man | |
| parent | 54d27a9ea0baa439faef363f88bdf4897a945029 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-ec9e31298a8d5d018f02ece050b3ec808e2791aa.tar.gz | |
(Colors): Note that --color is intended for overriding the terminal defaults,
not for normal invocation.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/cmdargs.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/cmdargs.texi b/man/cmdargs.texi index fc17d7ec695..f664c3144ce 100644 --- a/man/cmdargs.texi +++ b/man/cmdargs.texi @@ -951,8 +951,12 @@ Reverse video---swap the foreground and background colors. @item --color=@var{mode} @opindex --color @cindex standard colors on a character terminal -For a character terminal only, specify the mode of color support. The -parameter @var{mode} can be one of the following: +@cindex override character terminal color support +For a character terminal only, specify the mode of color support. +This option is intended for overriding the number of supported colors +that the character terminal advertises in its @code{termcap} or +@code{terminfo} database. The parameter @var{mode} can be one of the +following: @table @samp @item never @itemx no |