# REPL display options (such as shorter vector output)?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-display-options-such-as-shorter-vector-output/9237>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [February 21, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-display-options-such-as-shorter-vector-output/9237 "2018-02-21T18:48:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![ivo\_welch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d2c977/32.png) [@ivo\_welch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ivo_welch)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-display-options-such-as-shorter-vector-output/9237/1 "2018-02-21T18:48:39Z")

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dear julia experts—does the REPL have options that set some default parameters on how it prints? (think R’s options(digits=10).) In particular, is it possible to get fewer lines for output of long vectors (e.g., rand(1000))? I like the \vdots format, but would rather not have everything else scrolled off screen. Fewer would be nice…

/iaw

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-display-options-such-as-shorter-vector-output/9237/2 "2018-02-21T21:31:32Z")

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Not at the moment, but it would be a good feature addition which should be fairly straightforward to add now that we have `IOContext` wrappers to control this sort of thing.

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**Author:** ![axsk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/axsk/32/1952_2.png) [@axsk](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/axsk)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-display-options-such-as-shorter-vector-output/9237/3 "2025-07-30T13:10:15Z")

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Did anything happen in this direction? Is this possible now?

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**Author:** ![NonDairyNeutrino](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nondairyneutrino/32/221496_2.png) [@NonDairyNeutrino](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/NonDairyNeutrino)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/repl-display-options-such-as-shorter-vector-output/9237/4 "2025-07-30T16:32:31Z")

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Not from my cursory investigation could find. The [closest PR](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/52543) I could find is on the ability to customize the presentation of float precision in the REPL. That being said, PRs are always welcome 🙂