Pandas reduce output when printing indices and columns in pandas data frame and series

I often work with pandas using big dataframes and series with multi-index or multi-column and I use the EMACS shell.

Often when I write df.index the output is so big that almost make my computer crash (and it is a powerful pc).

As when you output a dataframe df the output is truncated to the first and last n columns, also indices and columns should be truncated when printed to screen.

Comment From: jreback

duplicates of #12423 and #13480