Subject: [bug#29509] [PATCH 2/6] progress: 'progress-bar' accounts for brackets.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:56:58 +0100

* guix/progress.scm (progress-bar): Subtract 2 to BAR-WIDTH to account
for brackets.
---
 guix/progress.scm | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/guix/progress.scm b/guix/progress.scm
index 1993c7403..ba7944214 100644
--- a/guix/progress.scm
+++ b/guix/progress.scm
@@ -146,7 +146,8 @@ INTERVAL (a time-duration object), otherwise does nothing and returns #f."
 (define* (progress-bar % #:optional (bar-width 20))
   "Return % as a string representing an ASCII-art progress bar.  The total
 width of the bar is BAR-WIDTH."
-  (let* ((fraction (/ % 100))
+  (let* ((bar-width (max 3 (- bar-width 2)))
+         (fraction (/ % 100))
          (filled   (inexact->exact (floor (* fraction bar-width))))
          (empty    (- bar-width filled)))
     (format #f "[~a~a]"
-- 
2.15.0