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I am not the original author of cl-ansi-term, but I revived it lately. In particular, I added useful stuff to print data in tables:

• print list of lists (where the first one is the list of headers)
• print horizontal or vertical tables
  • the header keys are either the first row, either the first column
• print hash-tables, plists, alists
• filter keys to display (include, exclude)
• limit the number of columns
• they can be styled:
  • with or without borders
  • choose the columns’ width
  • choose the borders’ elements (“-|+”)
  • choose the headers’ and the cells’ style (color, bold...).

For example:

(progn
  (defparameter d (serapeum:dict :a 1.1 :b 2.2 :c 3.3))

  (banner "A single hash-table")
  (table d)

  (banner "A single hash-table, in columns")
  (vtable d)

  (banner "A single hash-table, ignoring column :B")
  (table d :exclude :b)

  (banner "A single hash-table, vertically ignoring column :B")
  (vtable d :exclude :b)

  (banner "A list of hash-tables")
  (table (list d d d))

  (banner "A list of hash-tables, ignoring column :B")
  (table (list d d d) :keys '(:a :c))

  (banner "A list of hash-tables, in columns")
  (vtable (list d d d))

  (banner "same, ignoring the column :b")
  (vtable (list d d d) :exclude :b))

prints:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     A single hash-table
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


+---------+---------+---------+
|A        |B        |C        |
+---------+---------+---------+
|1.1      |2.2      |3.3      |
+---------+---------+---------+

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     A single hash-table, in columns
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


+---------+---------+
|A        |1.1      |
+---------+---------+
|B        |2.2      |
+---------+---------+
|C        |3.3      |
+---------+---------+

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     A single hash-table, ignoring column :B
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


+---------+---------+
|A        |C        |
+---------+---------+
|1.1      |3.3      |
+---------+---------+

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     A single hash-table, vertically ignoring column :B
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


+---------+---------+
|A        |1.1      |
+---------+---------+
|C        |3.3      |
+---------+---------+

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     A list of hash-tables
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


+---------+---------+---------+
|A        |B        |C        |
+---------+---------+---------+
|1.1      |2.2      |3.3      |
+---------+---------+---------+
|1.1      |2.2      |3.3      |
+---------+---------+---------+
|1.1      |2.2      |3.3      |
+---------+---------+---------+

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     A list of hash-tables, ignoring column :B
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


+---------+---------+
|A        |C        |
+---------+---------+
|1.1      |3.3      |
+---------+---------+
|1.1      |3.3      |
+---------+---------+
|1.1      |3.3      |
+---------+---------+

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     A list of hash-tables, in columns
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


+---------+---------+---------+---------+
|A        |1.1      |1.1      |1.1      |
+---------+---------+---------+---------+
|B        |2.2      |2.2      |2.2      |
+---------+---------+---------+---------+
|C        |3.3      |3.3      |3.3      |
+---------+---------+---------+---------+

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     same, ignoring the column :b
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


+---------+---------+---------+---------+
|A        |1.1      |1.1      |1.1      |
+---------+---------+---------+---------+
|C        |3.3      |3.3      |3.3      |
+---------+---------+---------+---------+

or again

TERM> (table (list d d d) :exclude :b  :border-style nil)
A         C
1.1       3.3
1.1       3.3
1.1       3.3

Real example

Remember, the scripts I use in production. I’m usually fine with big data output in the REPL, until:

• until I want a cleaner output in the production script, so I can see quicker what’s going on.
• when I want to filter and study the data a bit more.

In this case I extract data from my DB and I get a list of plists:

((:|isbn| "3760281971082" :|quantity| -1 :|price| 12.8d0 :|vat| NIL
  :|distributor| NIL :|discount| NIL :|type_name| NIL :|type_vat| NIL
  :|price_bought| NIL :|price_sold| 12.8d0 :|quantity_sold| 1 :|sold_date|
  "2024-04-03 09:27:12")
 (:|isbn| "9791094298169" :|quantity| 4 :|price| 15.0d0 :|vat| NIL
  :|distributor| NIL :|discount| NIL :|type_name| "book" :|type_vat| NIL
  :|price_bought| NIL :|price_sold| 15.0d0 :|quantity_sold| 1 :|sold_date|
  "2024-04-03 10:06:58")
 ...)

With the table and vtable functions, I can explore data in a clearer fashion.

(uiop:add-package-local-nickname :sera :serapeum)
(term:table (sera:take 15 *sells*)
                          :keys '(:|isbn| :|quantity| :|price|)
                          :plist t
                          :column-width '(15 10 10))

+--------------+---------+---------+
|isbn          |quantity |price    |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|3760281971082 |-1       |12.8d0   |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|9791094298169 |4        |15.0d0   |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|3700275724249 |-126     |2.8d0    |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|9782372600842 |1        |10.0d0   |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|9782372600736 |0        |10.0d0   |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|9782221256770 |1        |19.0d0   |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|3700275734392 |171      |3.95d0   |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|3662846007789 |2        |16.95d0  |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|9782368292907 |1        |8.95d0   |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|9782095022679 |1        |12.95d0  |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|3662846007871 |5        |5.9d0    |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|9782092588949 |2        |5.95d0   |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|3700275724249 |-126     |2.8d0    |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|3700275734392 |171      |3.95d0   |
+--------------+---------+---------+
|3770017095135 |0        |29.99d0  |
+--------------+---------+---------+

Yes, this calls for more features: align the numbers, automatically adapt the cells’ width, etc.

(I’m sure we could have an explorer window, watching for changes, displaying data in a real table with interactive features... I can feel we’re close... CLOG frame and malleable systems someone?)

Use case and other primitives: title, banner, vspace, o-list

The use case is cleaner output for scripts.

Other libraries exist with other goals:

• https://github.com/AccelerationNet/data-table “A Common Lisp data structure representing tabular data (think CSVs and database results)”
• https://github.com/40ants/teddy “A data framework for Common Lisp”
• https://github.com/telephil/cl-ascii-table/ “Common Lisp API to present tabular data in ASCII-art tables”

Here are some of other cl-ansi-term’s utilities:

ordered and un-ordered lists:

(term:o-list '((:one one-a (:one-b :one-b-1 :one-b-2)) :two))
1. ONE
   1. ONE-A
   2. ONE-B
      1. ONE-B-1
      2. ONE-B-2
2. TWO

Horizontal lines

(term:hr :filler "=")
================================================================================

printing stuff, align on screen:

(term:cat-print '(:abc :def :ghi) :align :center)
;; =>

                                   ABCDEFGHI

vspace for vertical space (default: 3 newlines)

banner:

(banner "My title" :space 1)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     My title
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Stylesheets and colorized text

The library allows to use styles.

Start by defining your stylesheet.

(term:update-style-sheet
 '((:header :cyan   :underline)
   (:mark   :red    :reverse)
   (:term   :yellow :bold)))

:header, :mark and :term are now your own vocabulary. Anytime you use functions that accept a style, reference them.

Example:

(term:table (list '(:name :age) '(:me 7)) :header-style :header)

To see colors in a “dumb” terminal like in Emacs Slime, install the package slime-repl-ansi-color, “require” it and enable it ith M-x slime-repl-ansi-color-mode.

You can also disable styles in non-interactive terminals with term::*enable-effects-on-dumb-terminals*.

Happy lisping.

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