diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 30352ab7..b0220575 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ const typescript: PluginImpl<RPT2Options> = (options) =>
 	const typecheckFile = (id: string, snapshot: tsTypes.IScriptSnapshot, tcContext: IContext) =>
 	{
 			const diagnostics = getDiagnostics(id, snapshot);
-			printDiagnostics(tcContext, diagnostics, parsedConfig.options.pretty === true);
+			printDiagnostics(tcContext, diagnostics, parsedConfig.options.pretty !== false);
 
 			if (diagnostics.length > 0)
 				noErrors = false;
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ const typescript: PluginImpl<RPT2Options> = (options) =>
 			// printing compiler option errors
 			if (pluginOptions.check) {
 				const diagnostics = convertDiagnostic("options", service.getCompilerOptionsDiagnostics());
-				printDiagnostics(context, diagnostics, parsedConfig.options.pretty === true);
+				printDiagnostics(context, diagnostics, parsedConfig.options.pretty !== false);
 				if (diagnostics.length > 0)
 					noErrors = false;
 			}
diff --git a/src/parse-tsconfig.ts b/src/parse-tsconfig.ts
index 8fb39f5c..7686dfc9 100644
--- a/src/parse-tsconfig.ts
+++ b/src/parse-tsconfig.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export function parseTsConfig(context: IContext, pluginOptions: IOptions)
 	let loadedConfig: any = {};
 	let baseDir = pluginOptions.cwd;
 	let configFileName;
-	let pretty = false;
+	let pretty = true;
 	if (fileName)
 	{
 		const text = tsModule.sys.readFile(fileName);
diff --git a/src/print-diagnostics.ts b/src/print-diagnostics.ts
index 770d140c..ad319aea 100644
--- a/src/print-diagnostics.ts
+++ b/src/print-diagnostics.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { tsModule } from "./tsproxy";
 import { IContext } from "./context";
 import { IDiagnostics } from "./tscache";
 
-export function printDiagnostics(context: IContext, diagnostics: IDiagnostics[], pretty: boolean): void
+export function printDiagnostics(context: IContext, diagnostics: IDiagnostics[], pretty = true): void
 {
 	diagnostics.forEach((diagnostic) =>
 	{