Option to always use truncated display of Measurements

[karlwessel]

Would it be possible to get an option to tell Measurements to always use the truncated display of error values?

I'm almost never concerned about all of the digits of a Measurement but even when using an IO with compact display like the REPL it still happens often that Measurements are displayed as a whole. Especially in combination with Unitful.jl or in Tuples or arrays.

[giordano]

There is already a PR for Unitful.jl to fix the issue when using the two packages together: PainterQubits/Unitful.jl#213

[karlwessel]

I did not know of that PR, that will be definitively a huge improvement!

However there are still cases where the display is not truncated, like in this MWE:

julia> using Measurements

julia> a = 10π ± π
31.4 ± 3.1

julia> a, a
(31.41592653589793 ± 3.141592653589793, 31.41592653589793 ± 3.141592653589793)

An option to always use truncation would solve this for all cases where one has no control over whether the IO has :limit mode set.

Or, if a global option is not possible, is there some way one can easily force Measurements to be displayed truncated?

[giordano]

I don't really like global options. I'm thinking about simply always using truncated display.

[karlwessel]

That would also be totally fine (and reasonable) for me. However, in that case an easy method to display the untruncated version would probably be good.