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NAME

Acme::CPANModules::BrowsingTableInteractively - Browsing table data interactively

VERSION

This document describes version 0.003 of Acme::CPANModules::BrowsingTableInteractively (from Perl distribution Acme-CPANModules-BrowsingTableInteractively), released on 2021-05-01.

DESCRIPTION

This list catalogs are some options on CPAN if you have a table data (typically as an array of arrayrefs) and want to browse it interactively.

ACME::CPANMODULES ENTRIES

  • Tickit::Table::Widget

    This module lets you browse the table in a terminal. Using the Tickit library, the advantages it's supposed to have is mouse support. It's still very basic: you either have to specify each column width manually or the width of all columns will be the same. There's no horizontal scrolling support or a way to see long text in a column. Not updated since 2016.

  • Term::TablePrint

    This module lets you browse the table in a terminal. Provides roughly the same features like Tickit::Table::Widget with an extra one: you can press Enter on a row to view it as a "card" where each column will be displayed vertically, so you can better see a row that has many columns or columns with long text.

  • Text::Table::HTML::DataTables

    Personally, all the terminal modules listed here (Term::TablePrint and Tickit::Table::Widget) are currently not satisfactory for me. They are not that much better than drawing the text table (using something like Text::Table::More or Text::ANSITable) and then piping the output through a pager like less. At least with less you can scroll horizontally or perform incremental searching (though not interactive filtering of rows).

    Text::Table::HTML::DataTables bundles the wonderful DataTables [1] JavaScript library and lets you see your table in a web browser to interact with. I use this method the most often (usually through my CLI framework and the option --format=html+datatables specified through my CLIs). The main advantage is incremental searching/filtering. DataTables also lets you hide/show/reorder columns, change the page size, and so on. This is leaps and bounds more useful than simply scrolling pages of text provided by Tickit::Table::Widget or Term::TablePrint.

    [1] https://datatables.net/

FAQ

What is an Acme::CPANModules::* module?

An Acme::CPANModules::* module, like this module, contains just a list of module names that share a common characteristics. It is a way to categorize modules and document CPAN. See Acme::CPANModules for more details.

What are ways to use this Acme::CPANModules module?

Aside from reading this Acme::CPANModules module's POD documentation, you can install all the listed modules (entries) using cpanmodules CLI (from App::cpanmodules distribution):

% cpanmodules ls-entries BrowsingTableInteractively | cpanm -n

or Acme::CM::Get:

% perl -MAcme::CM::Get=BrowsingTableInteractively -E'say $_->{module} for @{ $LIST->{entries} }' | cpanm -n

or directly:

% perl -MAcme::CPANModules::BrowsingTableInteractively -E'say $_->{module} for @{ $Acme::CPANModules::BrowsingTableInteractively::LIST->{entries} }' | cpanm -n

This Acme::CPANModules module also helps lcpan produce a more meaningful result for lcpan related-mods command when it comes to finding related modules for the modules listed in this Acme::CPANModules module.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Acme-CPANModules-BrowsingTableInteractively.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Acme-CPANModules-BrowsingTableInteractively.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Acme-CPANModules-BrowsingTableInteractively/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

Acme::CPANModules - about the Acme::CPANModules namespace

cpanmodules - CLI tool to let you browse/view the lists

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.