diff --git a/src/Ghcid.hs b/src/Ghcid.hs
index 9cf21c2..06a8640 100644
--- a/src/Ghcid.hs
+++ b/src/Ghcid.hs
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ data Options = Options
     ,color :: ColorMode
     ,setup :: [String]
     ,allow_eval :: Bool
+    ,single_line_command_marker :: String
     ,target :: [String]
     }
     deriving (Data,Typeable,Show)
@@ -104,6 +105,7 @@ options = cmdArgsMode $ Options
     ,color = Auto &= name "colour" &= name "color" &= opt Always &= typ "always/never/auto" &= help "Color output (defaults to when the terminal supports it)"
     ,setup = [] &= name "setup" &= typ "COMMAND" &= help "Setup commands to pass to ghci on stdin, usually :set <something>"
     ,allow_eval = False &= name "allow-eval" &= help "Execute REPL commands in comments"
+    ,single_line_command_marker = "$>" &= name "eval-mark" &= typ "MARKER" &= help "Replace the command marker \"$>\" with an alternative for single line commands"
     ,target = [] &= typ "TARGET" &= help "Target Component to build (e.g. lib:foo for Cabal, foo:lib for Stack)"
     } &= verbosity &=
     program "ghcid" &= summary ("Auto reloading GHCi daemon v" ++ showVersion version)
@@ -258,7 +260,12 @@ mainWithTerminal termSize termOutput = do
                     else id
 
                 maybe withWaiterNotify withWaiterPoll (poll opts) $ \waiter ->
-                    runGhcid (if allow_eval opts then enableEval session else session) waiter termSize (clear . termOutput . restyle) opts
+                    runGhcid
+                      (customizeSingleLineCommandMarker (single_line_command_marker opts) $ if allow_eval opts then enableEval session else session)
+                      waiter
+                      termSize
+                      (clear . termOutput . restyle)
+                      opts
 
 
 
diff --git a/src/Session.hs b/src/Session.hs
index 13e7701..06d8fb9 100755
--- a/src/Session.hs
+++ b/src/Session.hs
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 -- | A persistent version of the Ghci session, encoding lots of semantics on top.
 --   Not suitable for calling multithreaded.
 module Session(
-    Session, enableEval, withSession,
-    sessionStart, sessionReload,
+    Session, enableEval, customizeSingleLineCommandMarker,
+    withSession, sessionStart, sessionReload,
     sessionExecAsync,
     ) where
 
@@ -35,11 +35,15 @@ data Session = Session
     ,running :: Var Bool -- ^ Am I actively running an async command
     ,withThread :: ThreadId -- ^ Thread that called withSession
     ,allowEval :: Bool  -- ^ Is the allow-eval flag set?
+    ,singleLineCommandMarker :: String -- ^ alternative to "$>" for single line commands
     }
 
 enableEval :: Session -> Session
 enableEval s = s { allowEval = True }
 
+customizeSingleLineCommandMarker :: String -> Session -> Session
+customizeSingleLineCommandMarker m s = s { singleLineCommandMarker = m }
+
 
 debugShutdown x = when False $ print ("DEBUG SHUTDOWN", x)
 
@@ -56,6 +60,7 @@ withSession f = do
     debugShutdown "Starting session"
     withThread <- myThreadId
     let allowEval = False
+    let singleLineCommandMarker = "$>"
     f Session{..} `finally` do
         debugShutdown "Start finally"
         modifyVar_ running $ const $ pure False
@@ -115,7 +120,7 @@ sessionStart Session{..} cmd setup = do
     messages <- pure $ qualify dir messages
 
     let loaded = loadedModules messages
-    evals <- performEvals v allowEval loaded
+    evals <- performEvals v allowEval singleLineCommandMarker loaded
 
     -- install a handler
     forkIO $ do
@@ -142,9 +147,9 @@ sessionRestart session@Session{..} = do
     sessionStart session cmd setup
 
 
-performEvals :: Ghci -> Bool -> [FilePath] -> IO [Load]
-performEvals _ False _ = pure []
-performEvals ghci True reloaded = do
+performEvals :: Ghci -> Bool -> String -> [FilePath] -> IO [Load]
+performEvals _ False _ _ = pure []
+performEvals ghci True singleLineCommandMarker reloaded = do
     cmds <- mapM getCommands reloaded
     fmap join $ forM cmds $ \(file, cmds') ->
         forM cmds' $ \(num, cmd) -> do
@@ -152,29 +157,28 @@ performEvals ghci True reloaded = do
             execStream ghci cmd $ \_ resp -> modifyIORef ref (resp :)
             resp <- unlines . reverse <$> readIORef ref
             pure $ Eval $ EvalResult file (num, 1) cmd resp
-
-
-getCommands :: FilePath -> IO (FilePath, [(Int, String)])
-getCommands fp = do
-    ls <- readFileUTF8' fp
-    pure (fp, splitCommands $ zipFrom 1 $ lines ls)
-
-splitCommands :: [(Int, String)] -> [(Int, String)]
-splitCommands [] = []
-splitCommands ((num, line) : ls)
-    | isCommand line =
-          let (cmds, xs) = span (isCommand . snd) ls
-           in (num, unwords $ fmap (drop $ length commandPrefix) $ line : fmap snd cmds) : splitCommands xs
-    | isMultilineCommandPrefix line =
-          let (cmds, xs) = break (isMultilineCommandSuffix . snd) ls
-           in (num, unlines (wrapGhciMultiline (fmap snd cmds))) : splitCommands (drop1 xs)
-    | otherwise = splitCommands ls
-
-isCommand :: String -> Bool
-isCommand = isPrefixOf commandPrefix
-
-commandPrefix :: String
-commandPrefix = "-- $> "
+    where
+      getCommands :: FilePath -> IO (FilePath, [(Int, String)])
+      getCommands fp = do
+          ls <- readFileUTF8' fp
+          pure (fp, splitCommands $ zipFrom 1 $ lines ls)
+
+      splitCommands :: [(Int, String)] -> [(Int, String)]
+      splitCommands [] = []
+      splitCommands ((num, line) : ls)
+          | isCommand line =
+                let (cmds, xs) = span (isCommand . snd) ls
+                 in (num, unwords $ fmap (drop $ length commandPrefix) $ line : fmap snd cmds) : splitCommands xs
+          | isMultilineCommandPrefix line =
+                let (cmds, xs) = break (isMultilineCommandSuffix . snd) ls
+                 in (num, unlines (wrapGhciMultiline (fmap snd cmds))) : splitCommands (drop1 xs)
+          | otherwise = splitCommands ls
+
+      isCommand :: String -> Bool
+      isCommand = isPrefixOf commandPrefix
+
+      commandPrefix :: String
+      commandPrefix = "-- " ++ singleLineCommandMarker ++ " "
 
 isMultilineCommandPrefix :: String -> Bool
 isMultilineCommandPrefix = (==) multilineCommandPrefix
@@ -212,7 +216,8 @@ sessionReload session@Session{..} = do
         loaded <- map ((dir </>) . snd) <$> showModules ghci
         let reloaded = loadedModules messages
         warn <- readIORef warnings
-        evals <- performEvals ghci allowEval reloaded
+        evals <-
+          performEvals ghci allowEval singleLineCommandMarker reloaded
 
         -- only keep old warnings from files that are still loaded, but did not reload
         let validWarn w = loadFile w `elem` loaded && loadFile w `notElem` reloaded