My first question here and I feel like it's rather opinion based, but this SE site still confuses me. Anyway, I looked for ellipsis in the q&a here and found nothing related to my problem, nor a tag related to such design snowflakes.
So my environment is this:
- standard Windows
cmd.exeenvironment i.e.80*25characters - script installs some application for ~5minutes with pauses to notify the user about what's going on (edit)
and I echo statements to the console in a shape like this:
Some string <= 80 characters...
Notice the ellipsis at the end. The whole echoed string remains in a single line i.e. it doesn't exceed the 80 character width.
My question is, should I remove the ... i.e. is it a distraction, or is it an OK thing to do? The ellipsis in such an echo was intended as a mark of progress such as:
Installing...Loading...Looking for...Downloading...Running...Launching...XYZing...
On the other hand, sometimes there's more than a single echo in such a shape e.g.:
Downloading...
Installing...
Looking for...
Installed correctly! <----- some kind of end for the echos
or in this shape:
Downloading...
Installing...
<long log from installing>
etc...