2.4 Useful options

• enter set; to display list of options (abbreviations shown in brackets)

• set <option>;
  to show current value of <option>

• set ProgressBar (on|off);
  to show progress of query execution

• set Timing (on|off);
  to show execution times of queries and some other commands

• set PrintMode (ascii|sgml|html|latex);
  to set output format for KWIC display and frequency distributions

• set PrintOptions (hdr|nohdr|num|nonum|...);
  to turn various formatting options on (hdr, num, ...) or off (nohdr, nonum, ...)
  type set PrintOptions; to display the current option settings
  useful options: hdr (display header), num (show line numbers), tbl (format as table in HTML and L^ATEX modes), bdr (table with border lines)

• set (LD|RD) <string>;
  change left/right delimiter in KWIC display from the default < and > markers

• set ShowTagAttributes (on|off);
  to display key-value pairs in XML start tags (if annotated in the corpus)

• create .cqprc file in your home directory with your favourite settings
  (contains arbitrary CQP commands that will be read and executed during startup)

• for a persistent command history, add the lines

  set HistoryFile "<home>/.cqphistory";
  set WriteHistory yes;

  to your .cqprc file.

  NB: (i) history requires CQP to be run with -e option; (ii) the size of the history file is not limited automatically by CQP.

• set AutoShow off;
  no automatic KWIC display of query results (display must be explicitly invoked with cat)

• set Optimize on;
  enable experimental optimisations (sometimes included in beta versions)