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NAME

Acme::CPANModules::BrowsingTableInteractively - List of modules for browsing table data interactively

VERSION

This document describes version 0.005 of Acme::CPANModules::BrowsingTableInteractively (from Perl distribution Acme-CPANModules-BrowsingTableInteractively), released on 2022-03-18.

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::Widget::Table - table widget with support for scrolling/paging

    Author: TEAM

    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 - Print a table to the terminal and browse it interactively.

    Author: KUERBIS

    This module lets you browse the table in a terminal. Provides roughly the same features like Tickit::Widget::Table 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 - Generate HTML table with jQuery and DataTables plugin

    Author: PERLANCAR

    Personally, all the terminal modules listed here (Term::TablePrint and Tickit::Widget::Table) 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::Widget::Table 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 cpanm-cpanmodules script (from App::cpanm::cpanmodules distribution):

% cpanm-cpanmodules -n BrowsingTableInteractively

Alternatively you can use the 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. See App::lcpan::Cmd::related_mods for more details on how "related modules" are found.

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.

SEE ALSO

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

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

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:

% prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla plugin and/or Pod::Weaver::Plugin. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2022, 2021 by perlancar <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.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Acme-CPANModules-BrowsingTableInteractively

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.