diff --git a/it/src/buffer.py b/it/src/buffer.py
index 72da5f2..18ac6b1 100755
--- a/it/src/buffer.py
+++ b/it/src/buffer.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ class Buffer: # all the information about the current file
 	# Rather than get the content as it's presented in the buffer object
 	# (as one big string), get it as a list.
 	def content_list(self):
-		return self.content.split(self.delimiter)
+		return self.content.rstrip(self.delimiter).split(self.delimiter)
 
 	# Build a string with the same format as the buffer.content and set the
 	# buffer.content to that string, from the kind of list output by
@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ class Buffer: # all the information about the current file
 		return self.content.count(self.delimiter)
 
 	def __init__(self):
-		self.content = ''         # content of the file
-		self.delimiter = '\n'     # line delimiter
+		self.content = ""         # content of the file
+		self.delimiter = "\n"     # line delimiter
+		self.env = {}             # configuration dictionary
 		self.filename = ""        # name of where we'll save the file
 		self.index = 0            # indexing of dot
 		self.dot = self.index - 1 # invalid position to start
diff --git a/it/src/config.py b/it/src/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..32021ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/it/src/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+def main(buffer, command):
+	# hard-coded for consistency across multiple people's configs
+	config_delimiter = "\t"
+	for i in range(len(buffer.content_list())):
+		line = buffer.content_list()[i].split(config_delimiter)
+		if len(line) != 2:
+			print("%s: %d: Bad column quantity" % (command[0], i+buffer.index))
+		else:
+			buffer.env[line[0]] = line[1]
+	return buffer
diff --git a/it/src/it.py b/it/src/it.py
index 8056c36..350ca84 100755
--- a/it/src/it.py
+++ b/it/src/it.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ def main(buffer, supplied_command):
 	if supplied_command != [] and len(supplied_command) > 1:
 		command = supplied_command[1:]
 	else:
-		command = get_command()
+		command = get_command("")
 
 	while True:
 		# EOFError in get_command(); ^D
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def main(buffer, supplied_command):
 			if type(buffer) is int:
 				break
 
-		command = get_command()
+		command = get_command("")
 
 	return buffer