@cindex starting Emacs
The usual way to invoke Emacs is with the shell command
-@command{emacs}. From a terminal window running a Unix shell, you can
-run Emacs in the background with @kbd{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}.)
+@command{emacs}. From a terminal window running a Unix shell on a GUI
+terminal, you can run Emacs in the background with @kbd{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