- Use **emacsclient**, rather than **emacs**. This will start
- an Emacs daemon process if necessary.
+ Use **emacsclient**, rather than **emacs**. For
+ **emacsclient** to work, you need an already running Emacs
+ with a server, or use ``--auto-daemon``.
+
+ ``--auto-daemon``
+ Automatically start Emacs in daemon mode, if the Emacs server
+ is not running. Applicable with ``--client``.