I'd suggest reserving no more than X characters for metadata/text, and use the rest for the bar.
That makes the textual region predictable, and the bar takes up the slack. In very small terminals the bar can become a single character /|\+ spinner :)
I'd suggest reserving no more than X characters for metadata/text, and use the rest for the bar.
That makes the textual region predictable, and the bar takes up the slack. In very small terminals the bar can become a single character /|\+ spinner :)