Starting Tint Emacs

On Win32 (Windows 98, Windows 2000, etc) there are two versions of Tint Emacs: wemacs, a GUI version, and temacs, a console version. Both them work almost exactly the same way and take almost exactly the same command line arguments.

Tint Emacs supports something called single instance. If you have an instance of Tint Emacs running (either wemacs or temacs) and start another instance, by default the second instance will tell the first instance which files you are trying to visit (via command line arguments) and then switch to the first instance. This makes it easy to visit files from a console window into a running instance of Tint Emacs. Try it.

Tint Emacs can also optionally maintain the state of an editing session across invocations. This is done based on the directory in which Tint Emacs is started. If there is a file called %USERNAME%.temacs in the directory in which Tint Emacs is started, then the previous state will be loaded from that file. %USERNAME% is the value of the USERNAME environment variable.

Tint Emacs when it starts will attempt to the read the file temacs.config from the directory specified by the environment variable USERPROFILE on Win32 systems and HOME on other systems. When it exits, it will write any changes you made to the configuration back to that file. In addition, at startup, it will try to read the files temacs.tsl and temacs.tnt. The file temacs.tsl is a Tint String Library and the file temacs.tnt is for Tint source code. These are your init files.