Font-Lock mode automatically highlights certain textual units found in
programs, such as comments, strings, and function names being defined.
-This requires a window system that can display multiple fonts.
+This requires a graphical display that can show multiple fonts.
@xref{Faces}.
ISO Accents mode makes the characters @samp{`}, @samp{'}, @samp{"},
@file{~/.emacs} file (@pxref{Init File}).
The appearance of the example buffers in this section is typically
-different under a window system, since faces are then used to indicate
+different under a graphical display, since faces are then used to indicate
buttons, links and editable fields.
@menu
When Emacs is started, it normally loads a Lisp program from the
file @file{.emacs} or @file{.emacs.el} in your home directory
-(see @ref{General Variables, HOME} if you don't know where that is).
+(see @ref{General Variables, HOME}, if you don't know where that is).
We call this file your @dfn{init file} because it specifies how to
initialize Emacs for you. You can use the command line switch
@samp{-q} to prevent loading your init file, and @samp{-u} (or
editor customizations even if you are running as the super user.
More precisely, Emacs first determines which user's init file to use.
-It gets the user name from the environment variables @env{LOGNAME} and
+It gets your user name from the environment variables @env{LOGNAME} and
@env{USER}; if neither of those exists, it uses effective user-ID.
If that user name matches the real user-ID, then Emacs uses @env{HOME};
otherwise, it looks up the home directory corresponding to that user
@kindex C-z @r{(X windows)}
@findex iconify-or-deiconify-frame
Iconify the selected Emacs frame (@code{iconify-or-deiconify-frame}).
-The normal meaning of @kbd{C-z}, to suspend Emacs, is not useful under a
-window system, so it has a different binding in that case.
+The normal meaning of @kbd{C-z}, to suspend Emacs, is not useful under
+a graphical display that allows multiple applications to operate
+simultaneously in their own windies, so Emacs gives @kbd{C-z} a
+different binding in that case.
If you type this command on an Emacs frame's icon, it deiconifies the frame.
@cindex mouse avoidance
@vindex mouse-avoidance-mode
-Mouse Avoidance mode keeps the window system mouse pointer away from
-point, to avoid obscuring text. Whenever it moves the mouse, it also
+Mouse Avoidance mode keeps the mouse pointer away from point, to avoid
+obscuring text you want to edit. Whenever it moves the mouse, it also
raises the frame. To use Mouse Avoidance mode, customize the variable
@code{mouse-avoidance-mode}. You can set this to various values to
move the mouse in several ways: