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-BrowsingTableInteractivel
    y>.

SOURCE
    Source repository is at
    <https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Acme-CPANModules-BrowsingTableInterac
    tively>.

BUGS
    Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website
    <https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Acme-CPANModules-BrowsingTableInterac
    tively/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.

