summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/emacs/entering.texi
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2018-01-30 17:20:14 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2018-01-30 17:20:14 +0200
commit1c7a936a947cbcf329042e5eb78be2eaf506ab9b (patch)
treeb0126e5641bc65fb1ccfdd9f91009927ffc2f417 /doc/emacs/entering.texi
parent1d4498b57030ee0dbf9adf809363f9524f0c5562 (diff)
downloademacs-1c7a936a947cbcf329042e5eb78be2eaf506ab9b.tar.gz
emacs-1c7a936a947cbcf329042e5eb78be2eaf506ab9b.tar.bz2
emacs-1c7a936a947cbcf329042e5eb78be2eaf506ab9b.zip
Minor copyedits in "Entering" chapter of Emacs manual.
* doc/emacs/entering.texi (Entering Emacs): Add a cross-reference to MS-Windows startup procedures. Clarify wording. Suggested by Francis Wright <f.j.wright@live.co.uk> in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/emacs/entering.texi')
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/entering.texi9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/entering.texi b/doc/emacs/entering.texi
index de0d7818099..2ff258ffb0c 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/entering.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/entering.texi
@@ -18,10 +18,11 @@
@cindex starting Emacs
The usual way to invoke Emacs is with the shell command
-@command{emacs}. From a terminal window running in the X Window
-System, you can run Emacs in the background with @command{emacs &};
-this way, Emacs won't tie up the terminal window, so you can use it to
-run other shell commands.
+@command{emacs}. From a terminal window running a Unix shell in the X
+Window System, you can run Emacs in the background with @command{emacs
+&}; this way, Emacs won't tie up the terminal window, so you can use
+it to run other shell commands. (For comparable methods of starting
+Emacs on MS-Windows, see @ref{Windows Startup}.)
@cindex startup screen
When Emacs starts up, the initial frame displays a special buffer