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There are a few key issues that this programmer has had with using the mysql client every day.  After looking for alternatives and other ways to fix the problems, reimplementing the client in Perl seemed like the easiest approach, and lent towards th...

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=item Ctrl-C kills the program

All of the shells that we used on a daily basis allow you to abandon the half-written statement on the prompt by typing Ctrl-C.  Spending all day in shells, you expect this behavior to be consistent, but you do this in mysql and you will be thrown to...

=item Wide output wraps

We are grateful that mysql at least uses ASCII art for table formatting (unlike C<sqlite3> for some reason).  But there are some tables that I work with that have many columns, with long names (it's often easier to keep adding columns to a table over...

Suffice it to say, it's a much better experience if, just like with C<git diff>, wide output is left wide, and you are optionally able to scroll horizontally with your arrow keys like you wanted in the first place.

=item Color

Most other modern programs we developers use on a daily basis (vim, ls, top, git, tmux, screen) offer to provide additional context to you via color.  By consistently setting colors on a variable type or file type, programs can convey to us additiona...

=item Unicode Box characters

The usage of '|', '+' and '-' for drawing tables and formatting data seems a bit antiquated.  Other tools are adopting Unicode characters, and most programmers are now using terminal programs that support Unicode and UTF8 encoding natively.  The Unic...