Truncated names should be longer (as a lot of empty space is present too) about skimpy HOT 3 CLOSED

I see that this 20-character limit is hardcoded here:

Can it be converted into a parameter/argument? Or can different lengths be used for different data types? Or can this vary depending on the available column width in order not to leave any empty space?

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This could do with something that adjusts more naturally to the number of characters in the column. As a general rule, I try to avoid lots of parameter options in favour of good average settings as this makes the code more maintainable and more concise.

Will take a look at it and see if we can change the behaviour to better suit cases where the needed column space is less.

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This can be closed as fixed in 98dbf76.

I've made a few changes:

• long column names now wrap
• instead of the strings of column names being truncated, as they were before, now the width of the columns is truncated

This means (in reference to your points):

1. You will have to do this yourself in your dataframe, but with the new column name wrapping, it should now be unambiguous as to which column you're dealing with when columns have similar characters for the first 20 characters
2. the empty space is removed
3. instead of ellipsis, we have a wrapped column
4. see 1.

Hopefully this helps improve the package for you and other users!

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