Spyder console: Avoid empty lines in REPL output

I am using Anaconda's Spyder. In the console, I want to see more of the historical output, including warnings/errors. Since the Spyder uses IPython, I found from here that avoid the vertical white space by putting the following into the IPython config files: c.InteractiveShell.separate_in = ''. From here, I found that the config file is c:/Users/User.Name/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_config.py. It didn't exist, so I created it with the one line above. The Spyder console output still contains too much vertical white space. What else can I try?