diff --git a/src/prolog/toplevel.pl b/src/prolog/toplevel.pl
index 3abadd7c..d4437fdd 100644
--- a/src/prolog/toplevel.pl
+++ b/src/prolog/toplevel.pl
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
        '$help_message',
        '$read_input'(ThreadedGoals, NewVarList)
     ;  C == '.',
-       nl, write('   ...'), nl
+       nl, write(';  ...'), nl
     ).
 
 '$help_message' :-