diff --git a/src/main/shadow/cljs/ui/components/inspect.cljs b/src/main/shadow/cljs/ui/components/inspect.cljs
index fecb1f90..5fd33be2 100644
--- a/src/main/shadow/cljs/ui/components/inspect.cljs
+++ b/src/main/shadow/cljs/ui/components/inspect.cljs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 (ns shadow.cljs.ui.components.inspect
   (:require
+    [clojure.string :as str]
     [goog.math :as math]
     [shadow.dom :as dom]
     [shadow.arborist :as sa]
@@ -24,11 +25,10 @@
   (<< [:svg {:width "24" :height "24" :viewBox "0 0 24 24" :fill "none" :xmlns "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"}
        [:path {:d "M15 19L8 12L15 5" :stroke "#4A5568" :stroke-width "2" :stroke-linecap "round" :stroke-linejoin "round"}]]))
 
-(defn render-edn-limit [[limit-reached text]]
-  (if limit-reached
-    (str text " ...")
-
-    text))
+(defn render-edn-limit [text]
+  (if (str/starts-with? text "1,")
+    (str (subs text 2) " ...")
+    (subs text 2)))
 
 (defc ui-object-as-text [ident attr active?]
   (bind data
diff --git a/src/main/shadow/remote/runtime/obj_support.cljc b/src/main/shadow/remote/runtime/obj_support.cljc
index 830fc55e..1f0b73da 100644
--- a/src/main/shadow/remote/runtime/obj_support.cljc
+++ b/src/main/shadow/remote/runtime/obj_support.cljc
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
            (str "Execution error:\n"
                 ;; can be any object, really no hope in making this any kind of readable
                 ;; capping it so throwing something large doesn't blow up the REPL
-                "  " (second (lw/pr-str-limit ex 200)) "\n"
+                "  " (subs (lw/pr-str-limit ex 200) 2) "\n"
                 "\n"))
 
          :clj
diff --git a/src/main/shadow/remote/runtime/writer.clj b/src/main/shadow/remote/runtime/writer.clj
index 2fb23937..ad6fa9e7 100644
--- a/src/main/shadow/remote/runtime/writer.clj
+++ b/src/main/shadow/remote/runtime/writer.clj
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
     (try
       (binding [*out* lw]
         (pr obj))
-      [false (.getString lw)]
+      (str "0," (.getString lw))
       (catch LimitWriter$LimitReachedException e
-        [true (.getString lw)]))))
+        (str "1," (.getString lw))))))
 
 (defn limit-writer [limit]
   (LimitWriter. limit))
diff --git a/src/main/shadow/remote/runtime/writer.cljs b/src/main/shadow/remote/runtime/writer.cljs
index 1611e7d5..3f566c7f 100644
--- a/src/main/shadow/remote/runtime/writer.cljs
+++ b/src/main/shadow/remote/runtime/writer.cljs
@@ -18,15 +18,15 @@
         writer (LimitWriter. sb limit)]
     (try
       (pr-writer obj writer (pr-opts))
-      [false (.toString sb)]
+      (str "0," (.toString sb))
       (catch :default e
         (if-not (keyword-identical? ::limit-reached (:tag (ex-data e)))
           (throw e)
-          [true
-           (let [s (.toString sb)]
-             (if (> (.-length s) limit)
-               (subs s 0 limit)
-               s))])))))
+          (str "1,"
+               (let [s (.toString sb)]
+                 (if (> (.-length s) limit)
+                   (subs s 0 limit)
+                   s))))))))
 
 (defn limit-writer [limit]
   (let [sb (StringBuffer.)]