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<h2 id="sec4" class="section">3 Startup Files</h2>
<p>Once <span style="font-weight:bold">jed</span> has loaded the startup file <code class="verb">site.sl</code>, it will try to load
the user’s personal initialization file. It first looks in the directory
pointed to by the environment variable <code class="verb">JED_HOME</code>. If that fails, it
then searches the <code class="verb">HOME</code> directory and upon failure simply loads the
one supplied in <code class="verb">JED_LIBRARY</code>.</p><p>The name of the user initialization file varies according to the operating
system. On Unix systems this file must be called <code class="verb">.jedrc</code> while on
VMS and MSDOS, it goes by the name <code class="verb">jed.rc</code>. For VMS systems, the
<code class="verb">HOME</code> directory corresponds to the <code class="verb">SYS$LOGIN</code> logical name while for the other two systems, it corresponds to the
<code class="verb">HOME</code> environment variable.</p><p>The purpose of this file is to allow an individual user to tailor <span style="font-weight:bold">jed</span> to
his or her personal taste. Most likely, this will involve choosing an
initial set of key-bindings, setting some variables, and so on.</p>
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