JuliaLang/julia

Showing strings compactifies too aggressively

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#49,440 opened on Apr 20, 2023

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display and printinggood first issuestrings

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Description

There is no need to compactify the string below:

It fits fine in the terminal window.

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Investigate the string display logic in Julia's REPL. Look for where compactification is applied and determine the condition that causes it to trigger unnecessarily. Consider adjusting the heuristic to only compactify when the string exceeds terminal width.
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