How to reduce Ammonite REPL ‘type’ output verbosity

As a brief note to self, when you need to reduce the Scala Ammonite REPL verbosity, specifically the output that shows “type” information when you declare new variables, I just found that this command helps:

repl.pprinter() = repl.pprinter().copy(defaultHeight = 0)

From what I can tell from the docs, the defaultHeight defaults to 5, and this reduces it to 0. So when you have Ammonite type output that looks like res1 in this example:

amm> case class Person(firstName: String, lastName: String, age: Int)
defined class Person

amm> Person("Fred", "Flintstone", 30)
res1: Person = Person(firstName = "Fred", lastName = "Flintstone", age = 30)

You can then run this command:

repl.pprinter() = repl.pprinter().copy(defaultHeight = 0)

and then the Ammonite output is truncated to this:

amm> Person("Fred", "Flintstone", 30)
......

That might not seem like a huge win for a little example like this, but when you’re doing more complicated things (such as with ZIO or Cats Effect) and don’t want to see that type output, it sure does help.