quicklisp/quicklisp-client — Issue #45: Wanted: Comment characters before all Quicklisp output
Author: tarballs-are-good
Created: 2011-11-30 06:20:28+00:00
State: open

**Summary**: Ideally all output could have a semicolon before. For example,

```
CL-USER> (ql:quickload :foo)
To load "foo":
Load 1 ASDF system:
foo
; Loading "foo"
[package quux].................................
[package foo]..
```

would be

```
CL-USER> (ql:quickload :foo)
; To load "foo":
; Load 1 ASDF system:
; foo
; Loading "foo"
; [package quux].................................
; [package foo]..
```

**Rationale**: When using Emacs and SLIME, when paired with something like the `auto-complete` package for Emacs, strings such as `quux].................................` are registered as possible, complete-able symbols. While this is not strictly a bug in Quicklisp or such Emacs packages, it's nice to have a differentiation between output which is data/code, and output which is simply messaging the user.

**Proposed Change**: Have all output, including the progress dots, be prepended with at least one semicolon.