Next: Starting JED Up: jed Previous: Installing JED Contents

# Startup Files

Once jed has loaded the startup file `site.sl`, it will try to load the user's personal initialization file. It first looks in the directory pointed to by the environment variable `JED_HOME`. If that fails, it then searches the `HOME` directory and upon failure simply loads the one supplied in `JED_LIBRARY`.

The name of the user initialization file varies according to the operating system. On Unix systems this file must be called `.jedrc` while on VMS and MSDOS, it goes by the name `jed.rc`. For VMS systems, the `HOME` directory corresponds to the `SYS$LOGIN` logical name while for the other two systems, it corresponds to the `HOME` environment variable.

The purpose of this file is to allow an individual user to tailor jed to his or her personal taste. Most likely, this will involve choosing an initial set of key-bindings, setting some variables, and so on.