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.exe` environment i.e. `80`*`25` characters
* 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...