# Option Files

The link on the right of global options allows you to save the CScout global options into a file. A directory `.cscout` will be created in the current directory (if it does not already exist), and a file named options will be written in it, listing the options you specified.

When CScout starts-up it will attempt to load the `options` file by searching in `$CSCOUT_HOME`, `$HOME/.cscout`, or `.cscout` in the current directory.

The `options` file is text based and contains key-value pairs. The order of the entries is not significant. This is an example of an `options` file.

    show_true: 1
    show_projects: 1
    show_identical_files: 1
    show_line_number: 0
    tab_width: 8
    rename_override_ro: 1
    refactor_fun_arg_override_ro: 1
    file_icase: 0
    entries_per_page: 20
    fname_in_context: 1
    sort_rev: 0
    cgraph_type: s
    cgraph_show: n
    fgraph_show: n
    cgraph_depth: 5
    fgraph_depth: 5
    cgraph_dot_url: 0
    sfile_re_string: sfile_repl_string:
    sfile_repl_string: entries_per_page:
    start_editor_cmd: start  C:\Progra~1\Vim\vim71\gvim.exe +/"%s" "%s"

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