BUG-22984 Fix truncation of DataFrame representations

Author: JustinZhengBC

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.txt

@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ Other Enhancements
 - :meth:`Index.to_frame` now supports overriding column name(s) (:issue:`22580`).
 - New attribute :attr:`__git_version__` will return git commit sha of current build (:issue:`21295`).
 - Compatibility with Matplotlib 3.0 (:issue:`22790`).
+- Representation of :class:`DataFrame` fills up the terminal window better
 
 .. _whatsnew_0240.api_breaking:
 

pandas/io/formats/format.py

@@ -620,7 +620,6 @@ def to_string(self):
                 # Size of last col determines dot col size. See
                 # `self._to_str_columns
                 size_tr_col = len(headers[self.tr_size_col])
-                max_len += size_tr_col  # Need to make space for largest row
                 # plus truncate dot col
                 dif = max_len - self.w
                 # '+ 1' to avoid too wide repr (GH PR #17023)