display. If Emacs is unable to connect to a graphical display, and on
systems, such as MS-Windows, where it cannot create graphical frames
when started from a text-only terminal, it creates a new text-only
-terminal frame (@pxref{Frames}). If you omit a filename argument
-while supplying the @samp{-c} option, the new frame displays the
-@samp{*scratch*} buffer (@pxref{Buffers}).
+terminal frame (@pxref{Frames}) on the same terminal where it was
+started. If you omit a filename argument while supplying the
+@samp{-c} option, the new frame displays the @samp{*scratch*} buffer
+(@pxref{Buffers}).
@item -F @var{alist}
@itemx --frame-parameters=@var{alist}