grid for viewers

Signature

> grid {flags}

Flags

• --width, -w {int}: number of terminal columns wide (not output columns)
• --color, -c: draw output with color
• --separator, -s {string}: character to separate grid with

Input/output types:

Examples

Render a simple list to a grid

> [123abc] |grid
1│2│3│a│b│c

The above example is the same as:

> [123abc] |wrapname|grid
1│2│3│a│b│c

Render a record to a grid

> {name:'foo', b:1, c:2} |grid
foo

Render a list of records to a grid

> [{name:'A', v:1} {name:'B', v:2} {name:'C', v:3}] |grid
A│B│C

Render a table with 'name' column in it to a grid

> [[namepatch]; [0.1.0false] [0.1.1true] [0.2.0false]] |grid
0.1.0│0.1.1│0.2.0

Notes

grid was built to give a concise gridded layout for ls. however, it determines what to put in the grid by looking for a column named 'name'. this works great for tables and records but for lists we need to do something different. such as with '[one two three] | grid' it creates a fake column called 'name' for these values so that it prints out the list properly.