A.3. Options

When setting an option with the O command, it is necessary to type only enough initial letters to distinguish it from the other options. They are not case sensitive.

recallCommand
shellBang

Change the character used for command recall or shell escape respectively. Note in the case of the latter that it still has to be repeated; you are changing each !, not the !! string.

pager

Set to | followed by the name of the program you want to use for paging; for example: O pag='|less'.

A.3.1. Options affecting the V, X, and x commands

arrayDepth
hashDepth

Set the maximum number of elements to print.

quote
HighBit
undefPrint

Change the style of string dumps. The valid values for quote are ", ', or auto.

globPrint

This is a Boolean ...

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