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From fc6853caa0f3e4f8f10404e58f2dbf9f0df88bd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 11:44:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 153/173] libsmartcols: backport upstream version
 v2.32-158-gc0bdff999

Addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561350
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
---
 Makefile.am                                 |    1 +
 configure.ac                                |    3 -
 libsmartcols/Makemodule.am                  |    3 +-
 libsmartcols/docs/Makefile.am               |    4 +-
 libsmartcols/docs/libsmartcols-docs.xml     |   28 +-
 libsmartcols/docs/libsmartcols-sections.txt |   47 +-
 libsmartcols/samples/Makemodule.am          |   37 +
 libsmartcols/samples/continuous.c           |  138 +++
 libsmartcols/samples/fromfile.c             |  344 +++++++
 libsmartcols/samples/maxout.c               |   56 ++
 libsmartcols/samples/title.c                |  135 +++
 libsmartcols/{src/test.c => samples/tree.c} |   77 +-
 libsmartcols/samples/wrap.c                 |  111 +++
 libsmartcols/src/Makemodule.am              |   41 +-
 libsmartcols/src/cell.c                     |  111 ++-
 libsmartcols/src/column.c                   |  351 +++++--
 libsmartcols/src/iter.c                     |    2 +-
 libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.h.in          |  156 +++-
 libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.sym           |   72 ++
 libsmartcols/src/line.c                     |  173 ++--
 libsmartcols/src/smartcolsP.h               |   70 +-
 libsmartcols/src/symbols.c                  |  114 ++-
 libsmartcols/src/table.c                    |  851 +++++++++++++----
 libsmartcols/src/table_print.c              | 1342 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 24 files changed, 3530 insertions(+), 737 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 libsmartcols/samples/Makemodule.am
 create mode 100644 libsmartcols/samples/continuous.c
 create mode 100644 libsmartcols/samples/fromfile.c
 create mode 100644 libsmartcols/samples/maxout.c
 create mode 100644 libsmartcols/samples/title.c
 rename libsmartcols/{src/test.c => samples/tree.c} (68%)
 create mode 100644 libsmartcols/samples/wrap.c

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 67464e4b2..7d5fa10e9 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ edit_cmd = sed \
 	 -e 's|@VERSION[@]|$(VERSION)|g' \
 	 -e 's|@LIBUUID_VERSION[@]|$(LIBUUID_VERSION)|g' \
 	 -e 's|@LIBMOUNT_VERSION[@]|$(LIBMOUNT_VERSION)|g' \
+	 -e 's|@LIBSMARTCOLS_VERSION[@]|$(LIBSMARTCOLS_VERSION)|g' \
 	 -e 's|@LIBBLKID_VERSION[@]|$(LIBBLKID_VERSION)|g'
 
 CLEANFILES += $(PATHFILES)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8cf317dc0..d561e01d0 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -133,9 +133,6 @@ AC_SUBST([BSD_WARN_CFLAGS])
 dnl libtool-2
 LT_INIT
 
-dnl check supported linker flags
-AX_CHECK_VSCRIPT
-
 m4_ifndef([PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG],
   [m4_fatal([Could not locate the pkg-config autoconf
     macros. These are usually located in /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4.
diff --git a/libsmartcols/Makemodule.am b/libsmartcols/Makemodule.am
index 0089712f1..012848b2b 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/Makemodule.am
+++ b/libsmartcols/Makemodule.am
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 if BUILD_LIBSMARTCOLS
 
 include libsmartcols/src/Makemodule.am
+include libsmartcols/samples/Makemodule.am
 
 if ENABLE_GTK_DOC
 # Docs uses separate Makefiles
 SUBDIRS += libsmartcols/docs
 endif
 
-# noinst for RHEL7: pkgconfig_DATA += libsmartcols/smartcols.pc
+pkgconfig_DATA += libsmartcols/smartcols.pc
 PATHFILES      += libsmartcols/smartcols.pc
 EXTRA_DIST     += libsmartcols/COPYING
 
diff --git a/libsmartcols/docs/Makefile.am b/libsmartcols/docs/Makefile.am
index c5aa2237c..e8a7600e9 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/docs/Makefile.am
+++ b/libsmartcols/docs/Makefile.am
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ SCAN_OPTIONS=
 
 # Extra options to supply to gtkdoc-mkdb.
 # e.g. MKDB_OPTIONS=--sgml-mode --output-format=xml
-MKDB_OPTIONS=--sgml-mode --output-format=xml --name-space mnt
+MKDB_OPTIONS=--sgml-mode --output-format=xml --name-space scols
 
 # Extra options to supply to gtkdoc-mktmpl
 # e.g. MKTMPL_OPTIONS=--only-section-tmpl
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ HTML_IMAGES=
 # e.g. content_files=running.sgml building.sgml changes-2.0.sgml
 content_files = $(builddir)/version.xml
 
-# SGML files where gtk-doc abbrevations (#GtkWidget) are expanded
+# SGML files where gtk-doc abbreviations (#GtkWidget) are expanded
 # These files must be listed here *and* in content_files
 # e.g. expand_content_files=running.sgml
 expand_content_files=
diff --git a/libsmartcols/docs/libsmartcols-docs.xml b/libsmartcols/docs/libsmartcols-docs.xml
index 4976ba701..02ee1ffe1 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/docs/libsmartcols-docs.xml
+++ b/libsmartcols/docs/libsmartcols-docs.xml
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@
     <title>libsmartcols Reference Manual</title>
     <releaseinfo>for libsmartcols version &version;</releaseinfo>
     <copyright>
-      <year>2014</year>
+      <year>2014-2018</year>
       <holder>Karel Zak &lt;kzak@redhat.com&gt;</holder>
     </copyright>
   </bookinfo>
 
-  <part id="gtk">
+  <part id="overview">
     <title>libsmartcols Overview</title>
     <partintro>
     <para>
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The libsmartcols library is used for smart adaptive formatting of tabular data.
     </para>
     <para>
 The library is part of the util-linux package since version 2.25 and is
-available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
+available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
     </para>
   </partintro>
  </part>
@@ -45,8 +45,28 @@ available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
     <xi:include href="xml/version-utils.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="xml/init.xml"/>
   </part>
-  <index id="api-index-full">
+  <index id="api-index">
     <title>API Index</title>
     <xi:include href="xml/api-index-full.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include>
   </index>
+  <index role="2.27">
+    <title>Index of new symbols in 2.27</title>
+    <xi:include href="xml/api-index-2.27.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include>
+  </index>
+  <index role="2.28">
+    <title>Index of new symbols in 2.28</title>
+    <xi:include href="xml/api-index-2.28.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include>
+  </index>
+  <index role="2.29">
+    <title>Index of new symbols in 2.29</title>
+    <xi:include href="xml/api-index-2.29.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include>
+  </index>
+  <index role="2.30">
+    <title>Index of new symbols in 2.30</title>
+    <xi:include href="xml/api-index-2.30.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include>
+  </index>
+  <index role="2.31">
+    <title>Index of new symbols in 2.31</title>
+    <xi:include href="xml/api-index-2.31.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include>
+  </index>
 </book>
diff --git a/libsmartcols/docs/libsmartcols-sections.txt b/libsmartcols/docs/libsmartcols-sections.txt
index 2b8180c52..79786b544 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/docs/libsmartcols-sections.txt
+++ b/libsmartcols/docs/libsmartcols-sections.txt
@@ -2,12 +2,15 @@
 <FILE>cell</FILE>
 libscols_cell
 scols_cell_copy_content
+scols_cell_get_alignment
 scols_cell_get_color
 scols_cell_get_data
+scols_cell_get_flags
 scols_cell_get_userdata
 scols_cell_refer_data
 scols_cell_set_color
 scols_cell_set_data
+scols_cell_set_flags
 scols_cell_set_userdata
 scols_cmpstr_cells
 scols_reset_cell
@@ -19,20 +22,32 @@ libscols_column
 scols_column_get_color
 scols_column_get_flags
 scols_column_get_header
+scols_column_get_json_type
+scols_column_get_safechars
+scols_column_get_table
 scols_column_get_whint
+scols_column_get_width
+scols_column_is_customwrap
+scols_column_is_hidden
 scols_column_is_noextremes
 scols_column_is_right
 scols_column_is_strict_width
 scols_column_is_tree
 scols_column_is_trunc
+scols_column_is_wrap
 scols_column_set_cmpfunc
 scols_column_set_color
 scols_column_set_flags
+scols_column_set_json_type
+scols_column_set_safechars
 scols_column_set_whint
+scols_column_set_wrapfunc
 scols_copy_column
 scols_new_column
 scols_ref_column
 scols_unref_column
+scols_wrapnl_chunksize
+scols_wrapnl_nextchunk
 </SECTION>
 
 <SECTION>
@@ -58,10 +73,13 @@ scols_line_get_ncells
 scols_line_get_parent
 scols_line_get_userdata
 scols_line_has_children
+scols_line_is_ancestor
 scols_line_next_child
+scols_line_refer_column_data
 scols_line_refer_data
 scols_line_remove_child
 scols_line_set_color
+scols_line_set_column_data
 scols_line_set_data
 scols_line_set_userdata
 scols_new_line
@@ -78,6 +96,8 @@ scols_ref_symbols
 scols_symbols_set_branch
 scols_symbols_set_right
 scols_symbols_set_vertical
+scols_symbols_set_title_padding
+scols_symbols_set_cell_padding
 scols_unref_symbols
 </SECTION>
 
@@ -87,29 +107,48 @@ libscols_table
 scols_copy_table
 scols_new_table
 scols_ref_table
+scols_sort_table
+scols_sort_table_by_tree
 scols_table_add_column
 scols_table_add_line
 scols_table_colors_wanted
 scols_table_enable_ascii
 scols_table_enable_colors
+scols_table_enable_noencoding
 scols_table_enable_export
+scols_table_enable_header_repeat
+scols_table_enable_json
 scols_table_enable_maxout
 scols_table_enable_noheadings
+scols_table_enable_nolinesep
+scols_table_enable_nowrap
 scols_table_enable_raw
 scols_table_get_column
 scols_table_get_column_separator
 scols_table_get_line
 scols_table_get_line_separator
+scols_table_get_name
 scols_table_get_ncols
 scols_table_get_nlines
 scols_table_get_stream
+scols_table_get_symbols
+scols_table_get_termforce
+scols_table_get_termheight
+scols_table_get_termwidth
+scols_table_get_title
 scols_table_is_ascii
 scols_table_is_empty
 scols_table_is_export
+scols_table_is_header_repeat
+scols_table_is_json
 scols_table_is_maxout
 scols_table_is_noheadings
+scols_table_is_noencoding
+scols_table_is_nolinesep
+scols_table_is_nowrap
 scols_table_is_raw
 scols_table_is_tree
+scols_table_move_column
 scols_table_new_column
 scols_table_new_line
 scols_table_next_column
@@ -120,10 +159,14 @@ scols_table_remove_columns
 scols_table_remove_line
 scols_table_remove_lines
 scols_table_set_column_separator
+scols_table_set_default_symbols
 scols_table_set_line_separator
+scols_table_set_name
 scols_table_set_stream
 scols_table_set_symbols
-scols_sort_table
+scols_table_set_termforce
+scols_table_set_termheight
+scols_table_set_termwidth
 scols_unref_table
 </SECTION>
 
@@ -131,6 +174,8 @@ scols_unref_table
 <FILE>table_print</FILE>
 scols_print_table
 scols_print_table_to_string
+scols_table_print_range
+scols_table_print_range_to_string
 </SECTION>
 
 <SECTION>
diff --git a/libsmartcols/samples/Makemodule.am b/libsmartcols/samples/Makemodule.am
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0e0208f04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libsmartcols/samples/Makemodule.am
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+
+check_PROGRAMS += \
+	sample-scols-title \
+	sample-scols-wrap \
+	sample-scols-continuous \
+	sample-scols-fromfile \
+	sample-scols-maxout
+
+sample_scols_cflags = $(AM_CFLAGS) $(NO_UNUSED_WARN_CFLAGS) \
+                      -I$(ul_libsmartcols_incdir)
+sample_scols_ldadd = libsmartcols.la $(LDADD)
+
+check_PROGRAMS += sample-scols-tree
+sample_scols_tree_SOURCES = libsmartcols/samples/tree.c
+sample_scols_tree_LDADD = $(sample_scols_ldadd) libcommon.la
+sample_scols_tree_CFLAGS = $(sample_scols_cflags)
+
+sample_scols_title_SOURCES = libsmartcols/samples/title.c
+sample_scols_title_LDADD = $(sample_scols_ldadd) libcommon.la
+sample_scols_title_CFLAGS = $(sample_scols_cflags)
+
+sample_scols_wrap_SOURCES = libsmartcols/samples/wrap.c
+sample_scols_wrap_LDADD = $(sample_scols_ldadd)
+sample_scols_wrap_CFLAGS = $(sample_scols_cflags)
+
+sample_scols_continuous_SOURCES = libsmartcols/samples/continuous.c
+sample_scols_continuous_LDADD = $(sample_scols_ldadd) libcommon.la
+sample_scols_continuous_CFLAGS = $(sample_scols_cflags)
+
+sample_scols_maxout_SOURCES = libsmartcols/samples/maxout.c
+sample_scols_maxout_LDADD = $(sample_scols_ldadd)
+sample_scols_maxout_CFLAGS = $(sample_scols_cflags)
+
+sample_scols_fromfile_SOURCES = libsmartcols/samples/fromfile.c
+sample_scols_fromfile_LDADD = $(sample_scols_ldadd) libcommon.la
+sample_scols_fromfile_CFLAGS = $(sample_scols_cflags)
+
diff --git a/libsmartcols/samples/continuous.c b/libsmartcols/samples/continuous.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8f9d13e6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libsmartcols/samples/continuous.c
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This file may be redistributed under the terms of the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License.
+ */
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+
+#include "c.h"
+#include "nls.h"
+#include "strutils.h"
+#include "xalloc.h"
+
+#include "libsmartcols.h"
+
+#define TIME_PERIOD	3.0	/* seconds */
+
+enum { COL_NUM, COL_DATA, COL_TIME };
+
+static double time_diff(struct timeval *a, struct timeval *b)
+{
+	return (a->tv_sec - b->tv_sec) + (a->tv_usec - b->tv_usec) / 1E6;
+}
+
+/* add columns to the @tb */
+static void setup_columns(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	scols_table_enable_maxout(tb, 1);
+	if (!scols_table_new_column(tb, "#NUM", 0.1, SCOLS_FL_RIGHT))
+		goto fail;
+	if (!scols_table_new_column(tb, "DATA", 0.7, 0))
+		goto fail;
+	if (!scols_table_new_column(tb, "TIME", 0.2, 0))
+		goto fail;
+	return;
+fail:
+	scols_unref_table(tb);
+	err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output columns");
+}
+
+static struct libscols_line *add_line(struct libscols_table *tb, size_t i)
+{
+	char *p;
+	struct libscols_line *ln = scols_table_new_line(tb, NULL);
+
+	if (!ln)
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output line");
+
+	xasprintf(&p, "%zu", i);
+	if (scols_line_refer_data(ln, COL_NUM, p))
+		goto fail;
+
+	xasprintf(&p, "data-%02zu-%02zu-%02zu-end", i + 1, i + 2, i + 3);
+	if (scols_line_refer_data(ln, COL_DATA, p))
+		goto fail;
+
+	return ln;
+fail:
+	scols_unref_table(tb);
+	err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output line");
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	struct libscols_table *tb;
+	size_t i;
+	struct timeval last;
+
+	scols_init_debug(0);
+
+	tb = scols_new_table();
+	if (!tb)
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output table");
+
+	setup_columns(tb);
+	gettimeofday(&last, NULL);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+		struct libscols_line *line;
+		struct timeval now;
+		int done = 0;
+		char *timecell = xmalloc( sizeof(stringify_value(UINT_MAX)) );
+
+		line = add_line(tb, i);
+
+		/* Make a reference from cell data to the buffer, then we can
+		 * update cell data without any interaction with libsmartcols
+		 */
+		scols_line_refer_data(line, COL_TIME, timecell);
+
+		do {
+			double diff;
+
+			gettimeofday(&now, NULL);
+			diff = time_diff(&now, &last);
+
+			if (now.tv_sec == last.tv_sec + (long) TIME_PERIOD)
+				done = 1;
+			else
+				usleep(100000);
+
+			/* update "TIME" cell data */
+			sprintf(timecell, "%f [%3d%%]", diff,
+				done ? 100 : (int)(diff / (TIME_PERIOD / 100.0)));
+
+			/* Note that libsmartcols don't print \n for last line
+			 * in the table, but if you print a line somewhere in
+			 * the midle of the table you need
+			 *
+			 *    scols_table_enable_nolinesep(tb, !done);
+			 *
+			 * to disable line breaks. In this example it's
+			 * unnecessary as we print the latest line only.
+			 */
+
+			/* print the line */
+			scols_table_print_range(tb, line, NULL);
+
+			if (!done) {
+				/* terminal is waiting for \n, fflush() to force output */
+				fflush(scols_table_get_stream(tb));
+				/* move to the begin of the line */
+				fputc('\r', scols_table_get_stream(tb));
+			} else
+				fputc('\n', scols_table_get_stream(tb));
+		} while (!done);
+
+		last = now;
+	}
+
+	scols_unref_table(tb);
+	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}
diff --git a/libsmartcols/samples/fromfile.c b/libsmartcols/samples/fromfile.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c1ab728fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libsmartcols/samples/fromfile.c
@@ -0,0 +1,344 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This file may be redistributed under the terms of the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License.
+ */
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <dirent.h>
+#include <getopt.h>
+
+#include "c.h"
+#include "nls.h"
+#include "strutils.h"
+#include "xalloc.h"
+#include "optutils.h"
+
+#include "libsmartcols.h"
+
+struct column_flag {
+	const char *name;
+	int mask;
+};
+
+static const struct column_flag flags[] = {
+	{ "trunc",	SCOLS_FL_TRUNC },
+	{ "tree",	SCOLS_FL_TREE },
+	{ "right",	SCOLS_FL_RIGHT },
+	{ "strictwidth",SCOLS_FL_STRICTWIDTH },
+	{ "noextremes", SCOLS_FL_NOEXTREMES },
+	{ "hidden",	SCOLS_FL_HIDDEN },
+	{ "wrap",	SCOLS_FL_WRAP },
+	{ "wrapnl",	SCOLS_FL_WRAP },
+	{ "none",	0 }
+};
+
+static long name_to_flag(const char *name, size_t namesz)
+{
+	size_t i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(flags); i++) {
+		const char *cn = flags[i].name;
+
+		if (!strncasecmp(name, cn, namesz) && !*(cn + namesz))
+			return flags[i].mask;
+	}
+	warnx("unknown flag: %s", name);
+	return -1;
+}
+
+static int parse_column_flags(char *str)
+{
+	unsigned long num_flags = 0;
+
+	if (string_to_bitmask(str, &num_flags, name_to_flag))
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to parse column flags");
+
+	return num_flags;
+}
+
+static struct libscols_column *parse_column(FILE *f)
+{
+	size_t len = 0;
+	char *line = NULL;
+	int nlines = 0;
+
+	struct libscols_column *cl = NULL;
+
+	while (getline(&line, &len, f) != -1) {
+
+		char *p = strrchr(line, '\n');
+		if (p)
+			*p = '\0';
+
+		switch (nlines) {
+		case 0: /* NAME */
+		{
+			struct libscols_cell *hr;
+
+			cl = scols_new_column();
+			if (!cl)
+				goto fail;
+			hr = scols_column_get_header(cl);
+			if (!hr || scols_cell_set_data(hr, line))
+				goto fail;
+			break;
+		}
+		case 1: /* WIDTH-HINT */
+		{
+			double whint = strtod_or_err(line, "failed to parse column whint");
+			if (scols_column_set_whint(cl, whint))
+				goto fail;
+			break;
+		}
+		case 2: /* FLAGS */
+		{
+			int num_flags = parse_column_flags(line);
+			if (scols_column_set_flags(cl, num_flags))
+				goto fail;
+			if (strcmp(line, "wrapnl") == 0) {
+				scols_column_set_wrapfunc(cl,
+						scols_wrapnl_chunksize,
+						scols_wrapnl_nextchunk,
+						NULL);
+				scols_column_set_safechars(cl, "\n");
+			}
+			break;
+		}
+		case 3: /* COLOR */
+			if (scols_column_set_color(cl, line))
+				goto fail;
+			break;
+		default:
+			break;
+		}
+
+		nlines++;
+	}
+
+	free(line);
+	return cl;
+fail:
+	free(line);
+	scols_unref_column(cl);
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static int parse_column_data(FILE *f, struct libscols_table *tb, int col)
+{
+	size_t len = 0, nlines = 0;
+	int i;
+	char *str = NULL;
+
+	while ((i = getline(&str, &len, f)) != -1) {
+
+		struct libscols_line *ln;
+		char *p = strrchr(str, '\n');
+		if (p)
+			*p = '\0';
+
+		while ((p = strrchr(str, '\\')) && *(p + 1) == 'n') {
+			*p = '\n';
+			memmove(p + 1, p + 2, i - (p + 2 - str));
+		}
+
+		ln = scols_table_get_line(tb, nlines++);
+		if (!ln)
+			break;
+
+		scols_line_set_data(ln, col, str);
+	}
+
+	free(str);
+	return 0;
+
+}
+
+static struct libscols_line *get_line_with_id(struct libscols_table *tb,
+						int col_id, const char *id)
+{
+	struct libscols_line *ln;
+	struct libscols_iter *itr = scols_new_iter(SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+
+	while (scols_table_next_line(tb, itr, &ln) == 0) {
+		struct libscols_cell *ce = scols_line_get_cell(ln, col_id);
+		const char *data = ce ? scols_cell_get_data(ce) : NULL;
+
+		if (data && strcmp(data, id) == 0)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	scols_free_iter(itr);
+	return ln;
+}
+
+static void compose_tree(struct libscols_table *tb, int parent_col, int id_col)
+{
+	struct libscols_line *ln;
+	struct libscols_iter *itr = scols_new_iter(SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+
+	while (scols_table_next_line(tb, itr, &ln) == 0) {
+		struct libscols_line *parent = NULL;
+		struct libscols_cell *ce = scols_line_get_cell(ln, parent_col);
+		const char *data = ce ? scols_cell_get_data(ce) : NULL;
+
+		if (data)
+			parent = get_line_with_id(tb, id_col, data);
+		if (parent)
+			scols_line_add_child(parent, ln);
+	}
+
+	scols_free_iter(itr);
+}
+
+
+static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(void)
+{
+	FILE *out = stdout;
+	fprintf(out,
+		"\n %s [options] <column-data-file> ...\n\n", program_invocation_short_name);
+
+	fputs(" -m, --maxout                   fill all terminal width\n", out);
+	fputs(" -c, --column <file>            column definition\n", out);
+	fputs(" -n, --nlines <num>             number of lines\n", out);
+	fputs(" -J, --json                     JSON output format\n", out);
+	fputs(" -r, --raw                      RAW output format\n", out);
+	fputs(" -E, --export                   use key=\"value\" output format\n", out);
+	fputs(" -C, --colsep <str>             set columns separator\n", out);
+	fputs(" -w, --width <num>              hardcode terminal width\n", out);
+	fputs(" -p, --tree-parent-column <n>   parent column\n", out);
+	fputs(" -i, --tree-id-column <n>       id column\n", out);
+	fputs(" -h, --help                     this help\n", out);
+	fputs("\n", out);
+
+	exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	struct libscols_table *tb;
+	int c, n, nlines = 0;
+	int parent_col = -1, id_col = -1;
+
+	static const struct option longopts[] = {
+		{ "maxout", 0, NULL, 'm' },
+		{ "column", 1, NULL, 'c' },
+		{ "nlines", 1, NULL, 'n' },
+		{ "width",  1, NULL, 'w' },
+		{ "tree-parent-column", 1, NULL, 'p' },
+		{ "tree-id-column",	1, NULL, 'i' },
+		{ "json",   0, NULL, 'J' },
+		{ "raw",    0, NULL, 'r' },
+		{ "export", 0, NULL, 'E' },
+		{ "colsep",  1, NULL, 'C' },
+		{ "help",   0, NULL, 'h' },
+		{ NULL, 0, NULL, 0 },
+	};
+
+	static const ul_excl_t excl[] = {       /* rows and cols in ASCII order */
+		{ 'E', 'J', 'r' },
+		{ 0 }
+	};
+	int excl_st[ARRAY_SIZE(excl)] = UL_EXCL_STATUS_INIT;
+
+	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");	/* just to have enable UTF8 chars */
+	scols_init_debug(0);
+
+	tb = scols_new_table();
+	if (!tb)
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output table");
+
+	while((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "hCc:Ei:Jmn:p:rw:", longopts, NULL)) != -1) {
+
+		err_exclusive_options(c, longopts, excl, excl_st);
+
+		switch(c) {
+		case 'c': /* add column from file */
+		{
+			struct libscols_column *cl;
+			FILE *f = fopen(optarg, "r");
+
+			if (!f)
+				err(EXIT_FAILURE, "%s: open failed", optarg);
+			cl = parse_column(f);
+			if (cl && scols_table_add_column(tb, cl))
+				err(EXIT_FAILURE, "%s: failed to add column", optarg);
+			scols_unref_column(cl);
+			fclose(f);
+			break;
+		}
+		case 'p':
+			parent_col = strtou32_or_err(optarg, "failed to parse tree PARENT column");
+			break;
+		case 'i':
+			id_col = strtou32_or_err(optarg, "failed to parse tree ID column");
+			break;
+		case 'J':
+			scols_table_enable_json(tb, 1);
+			scols_table_set_name(tb, "testtable");
+			break;
+		case 'm':
+			scols_table_enable_maxout(tb, TRUE);
+			break;
+		case 'r':
+			scols_table_enable_raw(tb, TRUE);
+			break;
+		case 'E':
+			scols_table_enable_export(tb, TRUE);
+			break;
+		case 'C':
+			scols_table_set_column_separator(tb, optarg);
+			break;
+		case 'n':
+			nlines = strtou32_or_err(optarg, "failed to parse number of lines");
+			break;
+		case 'w':
+			scols_table_set_termforce(tb, SCOLS_TERMFORCE_ALWAYS);
+			scols_table_set_termwidth(tb, strtou32_or_err(optarg, "failed to parse terminal width"));
+			break;
+		case 'h':
+			usage();
+		default:
+			errtryhelp(EXIT_FAILURE);
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (nlines <= 0)
+		errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "--nlines not set");
+
+	for (n = 0; n < nlines; n++) {
+		struct libscols_line *ln = scols_new_line();
+
+		if (!ln || scols_table_add_line(tb, ln))
+			err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to add a new line");
+
+		scols_unref_line(ln);
+	}
+
+	n = 0;
+
+	while (optind < argc) {
+		FILE *f = fopen(argv[optind], "r");
+
+		if (!f)
+			err(EXIT_FAILURE, "%s: open failed", argv[optind]);
+
+		parse_column_data(f, tb, n);
+		optind++;
+		n++;
+	}
+
+	if (scols_table_is_tree(tb) && parent_col >= 0 && id_col >= 0)
+		compose_tree(tb, parent_col, id_col);
+
+	scols_table_enable_colors(tb, isatty(STDOUT_FILENO));
+
+	scols_print_table(tb);
+	scols_unref_table(tb);
+	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}
diff --git a/libsmartcols/samples/maxout.c b/libsmartcols/samples/maxout.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..07a05e13f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libsmartcols/samples/maxout.c
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This file may be redistributed under the terms of the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License.
+ */
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <dirent.h>
+#include <getopt.h>
+
+#include "c.h"
+#include "nls.h"
+#include "libsmartcols.h"
+
+enum { COL_LEFT, COL_FOO, COL_RIGHT };
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	struct libscols_table *tb;
+	int rc = -1, nlines = 3;
+
+	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");	/* just to have enable UTF8 chars */
+
+	scols_init_debug(0);
+
+	tb = scols_new_table();
+	if (!tb)
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output table");
+
+	scols_table_enable_maxout(tb, TRUE);
+	if (!scols_table_new_column(tb, "LEFT", 0, 0))
+		goto done;
+	if (!scols_table_new_column(tb, "FOO", 0, 0))
+		goto done;
+	if (!scols_table_new_column(tb, "RIGHT", 0, SCOLS_FL_RIGHT))
+		goto done;
+
+	while (nlines--) {
+		struct libscols_line *ln = scols_table_new_line(tb, NULL);
+
+		scols_line_set_data(ln, COL_LEFT, "A");
+		scols_line_set_data(ln, COL_FOO, "B");
+		scols_line_set_data(ln, COL_RIGHT, "C");
+	}
+
+	scols_print_table(tb);
+	rc = 0;
+done:
+	scols_unref_table(tb);
+	return rc == 0 ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
+}
diff --git a/libsmartcols/samples/title.c b/libsmartcols/samples/title.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..131400da4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libsmartcols/samples/title.c
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This file may be redistributed under the terms of the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License.
+ */
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <dirent.h>
+#include <getopt.h>
+
+#include "c.h"
+#include "nls.h"
+#include "strutils.h"
+#include "xalloc.h"
+
+#include "libsmartcols.h"
+
+
+enum { COL_NAME, COL_DATA };
+
+/* add columns to the @tb */
+static void setup_columns(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	if (!scols_table_new_column(tb, "NAME", 0, 0))
+		goto fail;
+	if (!scols_table_new_column(tb, "DATA", 0, 0))
+		goto fail;
+	return;
+fail:
+	scols_unref_table(tb);
+	err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output columns");
+}
+
+static void add_line(struct libscols_table *tb, const char *name, const char *data)
+{
+	struct libscols_line *ln = scols_table_new_line(tb, NULL);
+	if (!ln)
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output line");
+
+	if (scols_line_set_data(ln, COL_NAME, name))
+		goto fail;
+	if (scols_line_set_data(ln, COL_DATA, data))
+		goto fail;
+	return;
+fail:
+	scols_unref_table(tb);
+	err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output line");
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	struct libscols_table *tb;
+	struct libscols_symbols *sy;
+	struct libscols_cell *title;
+	int c;
+
+	static const struct option longopts[] = {
+		{ "maxout", 0, NULL, 'm' },
+		{ "width",  1, NULL, 'w' },
+		{ "help",   1, NULL, 'h' },
+
+		{ NULL, 0, NULL, 0 },
+	};
+
+	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");	/* just to have enable UTF8 chars */
+
+	scols_init_debug(0);
+
+	tb = scols_new_table();
+	if (!tb)
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output table");
+
+	while((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "hmw:", longopts, NULL)) != -1) {
+		switch(c) {
+		case 'h':
+			printf("%s [--help | --maxout | --width <num>]\n", program_invocation_short_name);
+			break;
+		case 'm':
+			scols_table_enable_maxout(tb, TRUE);
+			break;
+		case 'w':
+			scols_table_set_termforce(tb, SCOLS_TERMFORCE_ALWAYS);
+			scols_table_set_termwidth(tb, strtou32_or_err(optarg, "failed to parse terminal width"));
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	scols_table_enable_colors(tb, isatty(STDOUT_FILENO));
+	setup_columns(tb);
+	add_line(tb, "foo", "bla bla bla");
+	add_line(tb, "bar", "alb alb alb");
+
+	title = scols_table_get_title(tb);
+
+	/* right */
+	scols_cell_set_data(title, "This is right title");
+	scols_cell_set_color(title, "red");
+	scols_cell_set_flags(title, SCOLS_CELL_FL_RIGHT);
+	scols_print_table(tb);
+
+	/* left without padding */
+	scols_cell_set_data(title, "This is left title (without padding)");
+	scols_cell_set_color(title, "yellow");
+	scols_cell_set_flags(title, SCOLS_CELL_FL_LEFT);
+	scols_print_table(tb);
+
+	/* center */
+	sy = scols_new_symbols();
+	if (!sy)
+		err_oom();
+	scols_table_set_symbols(tb, sy);
+	scols_unref_symbols(sy);
+
+	scols_symbols_set_title_padding(sy, "=");
+	scols_cell_set_data(title, "This is center title (with padding)");
+	scols_cell_set_color(title, "green");
+	scols_cell_set_flags(title, SCOLS_CELL_FL_CENTER);
+	scols_print_table(tb);
+
+	/* left with padding */
+	scols_symbols_set_title_padding(sy, "-");
+	scols_cell_set_data(title, "This is left title (with padding)");
+	scols_cell_set_color(title, "blue");
+	scols_cell_set_flags(title, SCOLS_CELL_FL_LEFT);
+	scols_print_table(tb);
+
+
+	scols_unref_table(tb);
+	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}
diff --git a/libsmartcols/src/test.c b/libsmartcols/samples/tree.c
similarity index 68%
rename from libsmartcols/src/test.c
rename to libsmartcols/samples/tree.c
index dd87fd38b..0cdb99420 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/src/test.c
+++ b/libsmartcols/samples/tree.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static void setup_columns(struct libscols_table *tb, int notree)
 	return;
 fail:
 	scols_unref_table(tb);
-	err(EXIT_FAILURE, "faild to create output columns");
+	err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output columns");
 }
 
 /* add a new line to @tb, the content is based on @st */
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ fail:
 	return -1;
 }
 
-/* read all entrines from directory addressed by @fd */
+/* read all entries from directory addressed by @fd */
 static int add_children(struct libscols_table *tb,
 			struct libscols_line *ln,
 			int fd)
@@ -142,12 +142,15 @@ static void add_lines(struct libscols_table *tb, const char *dirname)
 static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE *out)
 {
 	fprintf(out, " %s [options] [<dir> ...]\n\n", program_invocation_short_name);
-	fputs(" -c, --csv            display a csv-like output\n", out);
-	fputs(" -i, --ascii          use ascii characters only\n", out);
-	fputs(" -l, --list           use list format output\n", out);
-	fputs(" -n, --noheadings     don't print headings\n", out);
-	fputs(" -p, --pairs          use key=\"value\" output format\n", out);
-	fputs(" -r, --raw            use raw output format\n", out);
+	fputs(" -c, --csv               display a csv-like output\n", out);
+	fputs(" -i, --ascii             use ascii characters only\n", out);
+	fputs(" -l, --list              use list format output\n", out);
+	fputs(" -n, --noheadings        don't print headings\n", out);
+	fputs(" -p, --pairs             use key=\"value\" output format\n", out);
+	fputs(" -J, --json              use JSON output format\n", out);
+	fputs(" -r, --raw               use raw output format\n", out);
+	fputs(" -S, --range-start <n>   first line to print\n", out);
+	fputs(" -E, --range-end <n>     last line to print\n", out);
 
 	exit(out == stderr ? EXIT_FAILURE : EXIT_SUCCESS);
 }
@@ -155,17 +158,20 @@ static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE *out)
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	struct libscols_table *tb;
-	int c, notree = 0;
+	int c, notree = 0, nstart = -1, nend = -1;
+
 
 	static const struct option longopts[] = {
-		{ "ascii",	0, 0, 'i' },
-		{ "csv",        0, 0, 'c' },
-		{ "list",       0, 0, 'l' },
-		{ "noheadings",	0, 0, 'n' },
-		{ "pairs",      0, 0, 'p' },
-		{ "raw",      0, 0, 'r' },
-
-		{ NULL, 0, 0, 0 },
+		{ "ascii",	0, NULL, 'i' },
+		{ "csv",        0, NULL, 'c' },
+		{ "list",       0, NULL, 'l' },
+		{ "noheadings",	0, NULL, 'n' },
+		{ "pairs",      0, NULL, 'p' },
+		{ "json",       0, NULL, 'J' },
+		{ "raw",        0, NULL, 'r' },
+		{ "range-start",1, NULL, 'S' },
+		{ "range-end",  1, NULL, 'E' },
+		{ NULL, 0, NULL, 0 },
 	};
 
 	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");	/* just to have enable UTF8 chars */
@@ -174,9 +180,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	tb = scols_new_table();
 	if (!tb)
-		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "faild to create output table");
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output table");
 
-	while((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "cilnpr", longopts, NULL)) != -1) {
+	while((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "ciJlnprS:E:", longopts, NULL)) != -1) {
 		switch(c) {
 		case 'c':
 			scols_table_set_column_separator(tb, ",");
@@ -186,6 +192,10 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		case 'i':
 			scols_table_enable_ascii(tb, 1);
 			break;
+		case 'J':
+			scols_table_set_name(tb, "scolstest");
+			scols_table_enable_json(tb, 1);
+			break;
 		case 'l':
 			notree = 1;
 			break;
@@ -200,19 +210,40 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 			scols_table_enable_raw(tb, 1);
 			notree = 1;
 			break;
+		case 'S':
+			nstart = strtos32_or_err(optarg, "failed to parse range start") - 1;
+			break;
+		case 'E':
+			nend = strtos32_or_err(optarg, "failed to parse range end") - 1;
+			break;
 		default:
 			usage(stderr);
 		}
 	}
 
-	scols_table_enable_colors(tb, 1);
+	scols_table_enable_colors(tb, isatty(STDOUT_FILENO));
 	setup_columns(tb, notree);
 
-	while (optind < argc)
+	if (optind == argc)
+		add_lines(tb, ".");
+	else while (optind < argc)
 		add_lines(tb, argv[optind++]);
 
-	scols_print_table(tb);
-	scols_unref_table(tb);
+	if (nstart >= 0 || nend >= 0) {
+		/* print subset */
+		struct libscols_line *start = NULL, *end = NULL;
+
+		if (nstart >= 0)
+			start = scols_table_get_line(tb, nstart);
+		if (nend >= 0)
+			end = scols_table_get_line(tb, nend);
 
+		if (start || end)
+			scols_table_print_range(tb, start, end);
+	} else
+		/* print all table */
+		scols_print_table(tb);
+
+	scols_unref_table(tb);
 	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }
diff --git a/libsmartcols/samples/wrap.c b/libsmartcols/samples/wrap.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..795bef714
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libsmartcols/samples/wrap.c
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This file may be redistributed under the terms of the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License.
+ */
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <dirent.h>
+#include <getopt.h>
+
+#include "c.h"
+#include "nls.h"
+#include "strutils.h"
+#include "xalloc.h"
+
+#include "libsmartcols.h"
+
+
+enum { COL_NAME, COL_DESC, COL_FOO, COL_LIKE, COL_TEXT };
+
+/* add columns to the @tb */
+static void setup_columns(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	if (!scols_table_new_column(tb, "NAME", 0, SCOLS_FL_TREE))
+		goto fail;
+	if (!scols_table_new_column(tb, "DESC", 0, 0))
+		goto fail;
+	if (!scols_table_new_column(tb, "FOO", 0, SCOLS_FL_WRAP))
+		goto fail;
+	if (!scols_table_new_column(tb, "LIKE", 0, SCOLS_FL_RIGHT))
+		goto fail;
+	if (!scols_table_new_column(tb, "TEXT", 0, SCOLS_FL_WRAP))
+		goto fail;
+	return;
+fail:
+	scols_unref_table(tb);
+	err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output columns");
+}
+
+static char *gen_text(const char *prefix, const char *sub_prefix, char *buf, size_t sz)
+{
+	int x = snprintf(buf, sz,  "%s-%s-", prefix, sub_prefix);
+
+	for ( ; (size_t)x < sz - 1; x++)
+		buf[x] = *prefix;
+
+	buf[x++] = 'x';
+	buf[x] = '\0';
+	return buf;
+}
+
+static struct libscols_line * add_line(	struct libscols_table *tb,
+					struct libscols_line *parent,
+					const char *prefix)
+{
+	char buf[BUFSIZ];
+	struct libscols_line *ln = scols_table_new_line(tb, parent);
+	if (!ln)
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output line");
+
+	if (scols_line_set_data(ln, COL_NAME, gen_text(prefix, "N", buf, 15)))
+		goto fail;
+	if (scols_line_set_data(ln, COL_DESC, gen_text(prefix, "D", buf, 10)))
+		goto fail;
+	if (scols_line_set_data(ln, COL_FOO, gen_text(prefix, "U", buf, 55)))
+		goto fail;
+	if (scols_line_set_data(ln, COL_LIKE, "1"))
+		goto fail;
+	if (scols_line_set_data(ln, COL_TEXT, gen_text(prefix, "T", buf, 50)))
+		goto fail;
+	return ln;
+fail:
+	scols_unref_table(tb);
+	err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output line");
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	struct libscols_table *tb;
+	struct libscols_line *ln, *xln;
+
+	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");	/* just to have enable UTF8 chars */
+
+	scols_init_debug(0);
+
+	tb = scols_new_table();
+	if (!tb)
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create output table");
+
+	scols_table_enable_colors(tb, isatty(STDOUT_FILENO));
+	setup_columns(tb);
+
+	ln = add_line(tb, NULL, "A");
+	add_line(tb, ln, "aa");
+	add_line(tb, ln, "ab");
+
+	ln = add_line(tb, NULL, "B");
+	xln = add_line(tb, ln, "ba");
+	add_line(tb, xln, "baa");
+	add_line(tb, xln, "bab");
+	add_line(tb, ln, "bb");
+
+	scols_print_table(tb);
+	scols_unref_table(tb);
+	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}
diff --git a/libsmartcols/src/Makemodule.am b/libsmartcols/src/Makemodule.am
index bfe8c75c1..952d5e58f 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/src/Makemodule.am
+++ b/libsmartcols/src/Makemodule.am
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 
 
-## smartcols.h is generated, so it's stored in builddir! (no distribute in RHEL7)
-#smartcolsincdir = $(includedir)/libsmartcols
-#nodist_smartcolsinc_HEADERS = $(top_builddir)/libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.h
+# smartcols.h is generated, so it's stored in builddir!
+smartcolsincdir = $(includedir)/libsmartcols
+nodist_smartcolsinc_HEADERS = libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.h
 
-noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libsmartcols.la
+usrlib_exec_LTLIBRARIES += libsmartcols.la
 libsmartcols_la_SOURCES= \
 	include/list.h \
 	\
@@ -17,49 +17,32 @@ libsmartcols_la_SOURCES= \
 	libsmartcols/src/table.c \
 	libsmartcols/src/table_print.c \
 	libsmartcols/src/version.c \
-	libsmartcols/src/init.c \
-	$(nodist_smartcolsinc_HEADERS)
+	libsmartcols/src/init.c
 
-nodist_libsmartcols_la_SOURCES = libsmartcols/src/smartcolsP.h
-
-libsmartcols_la_LIBADD = libcommon.la
+libsmartcols_la_LIBADD = $(LDADD) libcommon.la
 
 libsmartcols_la_CFLAGS = \
+	$(AM_CFLAGS) \
 	$(SOLIB_CFLAGS) \
 	-I$(ul_libsmartcols_incdir) \
 	-I$(top_srcdir)/libsmartcols/src
 
-libsmartcols_la_DEPENDENCIES = \
-	libcommon.la \
-	libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.sym \
-	libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.h.in
+EXTRA_libsmartcols_la_DEPENDENCIES = \
+	libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.sym
 
 libsmartcols_la_LDFLAGS = \
 	$(SOLIB_LDFLAGS) \
 	-Wl,--version-script=$(top_srcdir)/libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.sym \
 	-version-info $(LIBSMARTCOLS_VERSION_INFO)
 
-EXTRA_DIST += \
-	libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.sym \
-	libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.h.in
-
-
-if BUILD_LIBSMARTCOLS_TESTS
-check_PROGRAMS += test_smartcols
-
-libsmartcols_tests_cflags = $(libsmartcols_la_CFLAGS)
-libsmartcols_tests_ldadd  = libsmartcols.la libcommon.la
-
-test_smartcols_SOURCES = libsmartcols/src/test.c
-test_smartcols_CFLAGS = $(libsmartcols_tests_cflags)
-test_smartcols_LDADD = $(libsmartcols_tests_ldadd)
-endif # BUILD_LIBSMARTCOLS_TESTS
 
+EXTRA_DIST += \
+	libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.sym
 
 # move lib from $(usrlib_execdir) to $(libdir) if needed
 install-exec-hook-libsmartcols:
 	if test "$(usrlib_execdir)" != "$(libdir)" -a -f "$(DESTDIR)$(usrlib_execdir)/libsmartcols.so"; then \
-		mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(libdir); \
+		$(MKDIR_P) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir); \
 		mv $(DESTDIR)$(usrlib_execdir)/libsmartcols.so.* $(DESTDIR)$(libdir); \
 		so_img_name=$$(readlink $(DESTDIR)$(usrlib_execdir)/libsmartcols.so); \
 		so_img_rel_target=$$(echo $(usrlib_execdir) | sed 's,\(^/\|\)[^/][^/]*,..,g'); \
diff --git a/libsmartcols/src/cell.c b/libsmartcols/src/cell.c
index ea41f698f..0717a2d09 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/src/cell.c
+++ b/libsmartcols/src/cell.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 /**
  * SECTION: cell
  * @title: Cell
- * @short_description: cell API
+ * @short_description: container for your data
  *
  * An API to access and modify per-cell data and information. Note that cell is
  * always part of the line. If you destroy (un-reference) a line than it
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@
  */
 int scols_reset_cell(struct libscols_cell *ce)
 {
-	assert(ce);
-
 	if (!ce)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -56,34 +54,21 @@ int scols_reset_cell(struct libscols_cell *ce)
 /**
  * scols_cell_set_data:
  * @ce: a pointer to a struct libscols_cell instance
- * @str: data (used for scols_printtable())
+ * @data: data (used for scols_print_table())
  *
- * Stores a copy of the @str in @ce.
+ * Stores a copy of the @str in @ce, the old data are deallocated by free().
  *
  * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
-int scols_cell_set_data(struct libscols_cell *ce, const char *str)
+int scols_cell_set_data(struct libscols_cell *ce, const char *data)
 {
-	char *p = NULL;
-
-	assert(ce);
-
-	if (!ce)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	if (str) {
-		p = strdup(str);
-		if (!p)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-	free(ce->data);
-	ce->data = p;
-	return 0;
+	return strdup_to_struct_member(ce, data, data);
 }
 
 /**
  * scols_cell_refer_data:
  * @ce: a pointer to a struct libscols_cell instance
- * @str: data (used for scols_printtable())
+ * @data: data (used for scols_print_table())
  *
  * Adds a reference to @str to @ce. The pointer is deallocated by
  * scols_reset_cell() or scols_unref_line(). This function is mostly designed
@@ -92,14 +77,12 @@ int scols_cell_set_data(struct libscols_cell *ce, const char *str)
  *
  * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
-int scols_cell_refer_data(struct libscols_cell *ce, char *str)
+int scols_cell_refer_data(struct libscols_cell *ce, char *data)
 {
-	assert(ce);
-
 	if (!ce)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	free(ce->data);
-	ce->data = str;
+	ce->data = data;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -111,7 +94,6 @@ int scols_cell_refer_data(struct libscols_cell *ce, char *str)
  */
 const char *scols_cell_get_data(const struct libscols_cell *ce)
 {
-	assert(ce);
 	return ce ? ce->data : NULL;
 }
 
@@ -124,8 +106,6 @@ const char *scols_cell_get_data(const struct libscols_cell *ce)
  */
 int scols_cell_set_userdata(struct libscols_cell *ce, void *data)
 {
-	assert(ce);
-
 	if (!ce)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	ce->userdata = data;
@@ -140,7 +120,7 @@ int scols_cell_set_userdata(struct libscols_cell *ce, void *data)
  */
 void *scols_cell_get_userdata(struct libscols_cell *ce)
 {
-	return ce ? ce->userdata : NULL;
+	return ce->userdata;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -178,7 +158,7 @@ int scols_cmpstr_cells(struct libscols_cell *a,
 /**
  * scols_cell_set_color:
  * @ce: a pointer to a struct libscols_cell instance
- * @color: ESC sequence
+ * @color: color name or ESC sequence
  *
  * Set the color of @ce to @color.
  *
@@ -186,32 +166,70 @@ int scols_cmpstr_cells(struct libscols_cell *a,
  */
 int scols_cell_set_color(struct libscols_cell *ce, const char *color)
 {
-	char *p = NULL;
+	if (color && isalpha(*color)) {
+		color = color_sequence_from_colorname(color);
+		if (!color)
+			return -EINVAL;
+	}
+	return strdup_to_struct_member(ce, color, color);
+}
 
-	assert(ce);
+/**
+ * scols_cell_get_color:
+ * @ce: a pointer to a struct libscols_cell instance
+ *
+ * Returns: the current color of @ce.
+ */
+const char *scols_cell_get_color(const struct libscols_cell *ce)
+{
+	return ce->color;
+}
 
+/**
+ * scols_cell_set_flags:
+ * @ce: a pointer to a struct libscols_cell instance
+ * @flags: SCOLS_CELL_FL_* flags
+ *
+ * Note that cells in the table are always aligned by column flags. The cell
+ * flags are used for table title only (now).
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ */
+int scols_cell_set_flags(struct libscols_cell *ce, int flags)
+{
 	if (!ce)
 		return -EINVAL;
-	if (color) {
-		p = strdup(color);
-		if (!p)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-	free(ce->color);
-	ce->color = p;
+	ce->flags = flags;
 	return 0;
 }
 
 /**
- * scols_cell_get_color:
+ * scols_cell_get_flags:
  * @ce: a pointer to a struct libscols_cell instance
  *
- * Returns: the current color of @ce.
+ * Returns: the current flags
  */
-const char *scols_cell_get_color(const struct libscols_cell *ce)
+int scols_cell_get_flags(const struct libscols_cell *ce)
 {
-	assert(ce);
-	return ce ? ce->color : NULL;
+	return ce->flags;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_cell_get_alignment:
+ * @ce: a pointer to a struct libscols_cell instance
+ *
+ * Since: 2.30
+ *
+ * Returns: SCOLS_CELL_FL_{RIGHT,CELNTER,LEFT}
+ */
+int scols_cell_get_alignment(const struct libscols_cell *ce)
+{
+	if (ce->flags & SCOLS_CELL_FL_RIGHT)
+		return SCOLS_CELL_FL_RIGHT;
+	else if (ce->flags & SCOLS_CELL_FL_CENTER)
+		return SCOLS_CELL_FL_CENTER;
+
+	return SCOLS_CELL_FL_LEFT;	/* default */
 }
 
 /**
@@ -228,15 +246,12 @@ int scols_cell_copy_content(struct libscols_cell *dest,
 {
 	int rc;
 
-	assert(dest);
-	assert(src);
-
 	rc = scols_cell_set_data(dest, scols_cell_get_data(src));
 	if (!rc)
 		rc = scols_cell_set_color(dest, scols_cell_get_color(src));
 	if (!rc)
 		dest->userdata = src->userdata;
 
-	DBG(CELL, ul_debugobj((void *) src, "copy into %p", dest));
+	DBG(CELL, ul_debugobj(src, "copy"));
 	return rc;
 }
diff --git a/libsmartcols/src/column.c b/libsmartcols/src/column.c
index d1d10a6d0..e9d6dc404 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/src/column.c
+++ b/libsmartcols/src/column.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 /**
  * SECTION: column
  * @title: Column
- * @short_description: column API
+ * @short_description: defines output columns formats, headers, etc.
  *
  * An API to access and modify per-column data and information.
  */
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
 
+#include "mbsalign.h"
+
 #include "smartcolsP.h"
 
 /**
@@ -29,7 +31,7 @@
  *
  * Allocates space for a new column.
  *
- * Returns: a pointer to a new struct libscols_cell instance, NULL in case of an ENOMEM error.
+ * Returns: a pointer to a new struct libscols_column instance, NULL in case of an ENOMEM error.
  */
 struct libscols_column *scols_new_column(void)
 {
@@ -70,6 +72,8 @@ void scols_unref_column(struct libscols_column *cl)
 		list_del(&cl->cl_columns);
 		scols_reset_cell(&cl->header);
 		free(cl->color);
+		free(cl->safechars);
+		free(cl->pending_data_buf);
 		free(cl);
 	}
 }
@@ -86,14 +90,13 @@ struct libscols_column *scols_copy_column(const struct libscols_column *cl)
 {
 	struct libscols_column *ret;
 
-	assert (cl);
 	if (!cl)
 		return NULL;
 	ret = scols_new_column();
 	if (!ret)
 		return NULL;
 
-	DBG(COL, ul_debugobj((void *) cl, "copy to %p", ret));
+	DBG(COL, ul_debugobj(cl, "copy"));
 
 	if (scols_column_set_color(ret, cl->color))
 		goto err;
@@ -119,14 +122,12 @@ err:
  * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
  * @whint: a width hint
  *
- * Sets the width hint of column @cl to @whint.
+ * Sets the width hint of column @cl to @whint. See scols_table_new_column().
  *
  * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
 int scols_column_set_whint(struct libscols_column *cl, double whint)
 {
-	assert(cl);
-
 	if (!cl)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -140,10 +141,9 @@ int scols_column_set_whint(struct libscols_column *cl, double whint)
  *
  * Returns: The width hint of column @cl, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
-double scols_column_get_whint(struct libscols_column *cl)
+double scols_column_get_whint(const struct libscols_column *cl)
 {
-	assert(cl);
-	return cl ? cl->width_hint : -EINVAL;
+	return cl->width_hint;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -157,25 +157,78 @@ double scols_column_get_whint(struct libscols_column *cl)
  */
 int scols_column_set_flags(struct libscols_column *cl, int flags)
 {
-	assert(cl);
-
 	if (!cl)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	if (cl->table) {
+		if (!(cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_TREE) && (flags & SCOLS_FL_TREE))
+			cl->table->ntreecols++;
+		else if ((cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_TREE) && !(flags & SCOLS_FL_TREE))
+			cl->table->ntreecols--;
+	}
+
 	cl->flags = flags;
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * scols_column_set_json_type:
+ * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
+ * @type: SCOLS_JSON_* type
+ *
+ * Sets the type used for JSON formatting, the default is SCOLS_JSON_STRING.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.33
+ */
+int scols_column_set_json_type(struct libscols_column *cl, int type)
+{
+	if (!cl)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	cl->json_type = type;
+	return 0;
+
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_column_get_json_type:
+ * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
+ *
+ * Note that SCOLS_JSON_BOOLEAN interprets NULL, empty strings, '0', 'N' and
+ * 'n' as "false"; and everything else as "true".
+ *
+ * Returns: JSON type used for formatting or a negative value in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.33
+ */
+int scols_column_get_json_type(const struct libscols_column *cl)
+{
+	return cl ? cl->json_type : -EINVAL;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * scols_column_get_table:
+ * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
+ *
+ * Returns: pointer to the table where columns is used
+ */
+struct libscols_table *scols_column_get_table(const struct libscols_column *cl)
+{
+	return cl->table;
+}
+
 /**
  * scols_column_get_flags:
  * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
  *
  * Returns: The flag mask of @cl, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
-int scols_column_get_flags(struct libscols_column *cl)
+int scols_column_get_flags(const struct libscols_column *cl)
 {
-	assert(cl);
-	return cl ? cl->flags : -EINVAL;
+	return cl->flags;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -187,14 +240,13 @@ int scols_column_get_flags(struct libscols_column *cl)
  */
 struct libscols_cell *scols_column_get_header(struct libscols_column *cl)
 {
-	assert(cl);
-	return cl ? &cl->header : NULL;
+	return &cl->header;
 }
 
 /**
  * scols_column_set_color:
  * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
- * @color: ESC sequence
+ * @color: color name or ESC sequence
  *
  * The default color for data cells and column header.
  *
@@ -208,20 +260,12 @@ struct libscols_cell *scols_column_get_header(struct libscols_column *cl)
  */
 int scols_column_set_color(struct libscols_column *cl, const char *color)
 {
-	char *p = NULL;
-
-	assert(cl);
-	if (!cl)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	if (color) {
-		p = strdup(color);
-		if (!p)
-			return -ENOMEM;
+	if (color && isalpha(*color)) {
+		color = color_sequence_from_colorname(color);
+		if (!color)
+			return -EINVAL;
 	}
-
-	free(cl->color);
-	cl->color = p;
-	return 0;
+	return strdup_to_struct_member(cl, color, color);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -230,12 +274,79 @@ int scols_column_set_color(struct libscols_column *cl, const char *color)
  *
  * Returns: The current color setting of the column @cl.
  */
-const char *scols_column_get_color(struct libscols_column *cl)
+const char *scols_column_get_color(const struct libscols_column *cl)
+{
+	return cl->color;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_wrapnl_nextchunk:
+ * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
+ * @data: string
+ * @userdata: callback private data
+ *
+ * This is built-in function for scols_column_set_wrapfunc(). This function
+ * terminates the current chunk by \0 and returns pointer to the begin of
+ * the next chunk. The chunks are based on \n.
+ *
+ * For example for data "AAA\nBBB\nCCC" the next chunk is "BBB".
+ *
+ * Returns: next chunk
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+char *scols_wrapnl_nextchunk(const struct libscols_column *cl __attribute__((unused)),
+			char *data,
+			void *userdata __attribute__((unused)))
 {
-	assert(cl);
-	return cl ? cl->color : NULL;
+	char *p = data ? strchr(data, '\n') : NULL;
+
+	if (p) {
+		*p = '\0';
+		return p + 1;
+	}
+	return NULL;
 }
 
+/**
+ * scols_wrapnl_chunksize:
+ * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
+ * @data: string
+ * @userdata: callback private data
+ *
+ * Analyzes @data and returns size of the largest chunk. The chunks are based
+ * on \n. For example for data "AAA\nBBB\nCCCC" the largest chunk size is 4.
+ *
+ * Note that the size has to be based on number of terminal cells rather than
+ * bytes to support multu-byte output.
+ *
+ * Returns: size of the largest chunk.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+size_t scols_wrapnl_chunksize(const struct libscols_column *cl __attribute__((unused)),
+		const char *data,
+		void *userdata __attribute__((unused)))
+{
+	size_t sum = 0;
+
+	while (data && *data) {
+		const char *p;
+		size_t sz;
+
+		p = strchr(data, '\n');
+		if (p) {
+			sz = mbs_safe_nwidth(data, p - data, NULL);
+			p++;
+		} else
+			sz = mbs_safe_width(data);
+
+		sum = max(sum, sz);
+		data = p;
+	}
+
+	return sum;
+}
 
 /**
  * scols_column_set_cmpfunc:
@@ -251,7 +362,6 @@ int scols_column_set_cmpfunc(struct libscols_column *cl,
 				   void *),
 			void *data)
 {
-	assert(cl);
 	if (!cl)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -261,19 +371,114 @@ int scols_column_set_cmpfunc(struct libscols_column *cl,
 }
 
 /**
- * scols_column_is_trunc:
+ * scols_column_set_wrapfunc:
  * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
+ * @wrap_chunksize: function to return size of the largest chink of data
+ * @wrap_nextchunk: function to return next zero terminated data
+ * @userdata: optional stuff for callbacks
  *
- * Gets the value of @cl's flag trunc.
+ * Extends SCOLS_FL_WRAP and allows to set custom wrap function. The default
+ * is to wrap by column size, but you can create functions to wrap for example
+ * after \n or after words, etc.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
  *
- * Returns: trunc flag value, negative value in case of an error.
+ * Since: 2.29
  */
-int scols_column_is_trunc(struct libscols_column *cl)
+int scols_column_set_wrapfunc(struct libscols_column *cl,
+			size_t (*wrap_chunksize)(const struct libscols_column *,
+						 const char *,
+						 void *),
+			char * (*wrap_nextchunk)(const struct libscols_column *,
+						 char *,
+						 void *),
+			void *userdata)
 {
-	assert(cl);
 	if (!cl)
 		return -EINVAL;
-	return cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_TRUNC;
+
+	cl->wrap_nextchunk = wrap_nextchunk;
+	cl->wrap_chunksize = wrap_chunksize;
+	cl->wrapfunc_data = userdata;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_column_set_safechars:
+ * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
+ * @safe: safe characters (e.g. "\n\t")
+ *
+ * Use for bytes you don't want to encode on output. This is for example
+ * necessary if you want to use custom wrap function based on \n, in this case
+ * you have to set "\n" as a safe char.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+int scols_column_set_safechars(struct libscols_column *cl, const char *safe)
+{
+	return strdup_to_struct_member(cl, safechars, safe);
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_column_get_safechars:
+ * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
+ *
+ * Returns: safe chars
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+const char *scols_column_get_safechars(const struct libscols_column *cl)
+{
+	return cl->safechars;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_column_get_width:
+ * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
+ *
+ * Important note: the column width is unknown until library starts printing
+ * (width is calculated before printing). The function is usable for example in
+ * nextchunk() callback specified by scols_column_set_wrapfunc().
+ *
+ * See also scols_column_get_whint(), it returns wanted size (!= final size).
+ *
+ * Returns: column width
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+size_t scols_column_get_width(const struct libscols_column *cl)
+{
+	return cl->width;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_column_is_hidden:
+ * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
+ *
+ * Gets the value of @cl's flag hidden.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 or 1
+ *
+ * Since: 2.27
+ */
+int scols_column_is_hidden(const struct libscols_column *cl)
+{
+	return cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_HIDDEN ? 1 : 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_column_is_trunc:
+ * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
+ *
+ * Gets the value of @cl's flag trunc.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 or 1
+ */
+int scols_column_is_trunc(const struct libscols_column *cl)
+{
+	return cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_TRUNC ? 1 : 0;
 }
 /**
  * scols_column_is_tree:
@@ -281,14 +486,11 @@ int scols_column_is_trunc(struct libscols_column *cl)
  *
  * Gets the value of @cl's flag tree.
  *
- * Returns: tree flag value, negative value in case of an error.
+ * Returns: 0 or 1
  */
-int scols_column_is_tree(struct libscols_column *cl)
+int scols_column_is_tree(const struct libscols_column *cl)
 {
-	assert(cl);
-	if (!cl)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	return cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_TREE;
+	return cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_TREE ? 1 : 0;
 }
 /**
  * scols_column_is_right:
@@ -296,14 +498,11 @@ int scols_column_is_tree(struct libscols_column *cl)
  *
  * Gets the value of @cl's flag right.
  *
- * Returns: right flag value, negative value in case of an error.
+ * Returns: 0 or 1
  */
-int scols_column_is_right(struct libscols_column *cl)
+int scols_column_is_right(const struct libscols_column *cl)
 {
-	assert(cl);
-	if (!cl)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	return cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_RIGHT;
+	return cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_RIGHT ? 1 : 0;
 }
 /**
  * scols_column_is_strict_width:
@@ -311,14 +510,11 @@ int scols_column_is_right(struct libscols_column *cl)
  *
  * Gets the value of @cl's flag strict_width.
  *
- * Returns: strict_width flag value, negative value in case of an error.
+ * Returns: 0 or 1
  */
-int scols_column_is_strict_width(struct libscols_column *cl)
+int scols_column_is_strict_width(const struct libscols_column *cl)
 {
-	assert(cl);
-	if (!cl)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	return cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_STRICTWIDTH;
+	return cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_STRICTWIDTH ? 1 : 0;
 }
 /**
  * scols_column_is_noextremes:
@@ -326,12 +522,37 @@ int scols_column_is_strict_width(struct libscols_column *cl)
  *
  * Gets the value of @cl's flag no_extremes.
  *
- * Returns: no_extremes flag value, negative value in case of an error.
+ * Returns: 0 or 1
  */
-int scols_column_is_noextremes(struct libscols_column *cl)
+int scols_column_is_noextremes(const struct libscols_column *cl)
 {
-	assert(cl);
-	if (!cl)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	return cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_NOEXTREMES;
+	return cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_NOEXTREMES ? 1 : 0;
+}
+/**
+ * scols_column_is_wrap:
+ * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
+ *
+ * Gets the value of @cl's flag wrap.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 or 1
+ *
+ * Since: 2.28
+ */
+int scols_column_is_wrap(const struct libscols_column *cl)
+{
+	return cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_WRAP ? 1 : 0;
+}
+/**
+ * scols_column_is_customwrap:
+ * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 or 1
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+int scols_column_is_customwrap(const struct libscols_column *cl)
+{
+	return (cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_WRAP)
+		&& cl->wrap_chunksize
+		&& cl->wrap_nextchunk ? 1 : 0;
 }
diff --git a/libsmartcols/src/iter.c b/libsmartcols/src/iter.c
index 72c7865a8..91cc08009 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/src/iter.c
+++ b/libsmartcols/src/iter.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ void scols_reset_iter(struct libscols_iter *itr, int direction)
  *
  * Returns: SCOLS_INTER_{FOR,BACK}WARD
  */
-int scols_iter_get_direction(struct libscols_iter *itr)
+int scols_iter_get_direction(const struct libscols_iter *itr)
 {
 	return itr->direction;
 }
diff --git a/libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.h.in b/libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.h.in
index e61256022..f8be0bc04 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.h.in
+++ b/libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.h.in
@@ -83,12 +83,33 @@ enum {
 	SCOLS_FL_RIGHT	     = (1 << 2),   /* align to the right */
 	SCOLS_FL_STRICTWIDTH = (1 << 3),   /* don't reduce width if column is empty */
 	SCOLS_FL_NOEXTREMES  = (1 << 4),   /* ignore extreme fields when count column width*/
+	SCOLS_FL_HIDDEN	     = (1 << 5),   /* maintain data, but don't print */
+	SCOLS_FL_WRAP	     = (1 << 6)    /* wrap long lines to multi-line cells */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Column JSON types
+ */
+enum {
+	SCOLS_JSON_STRING    = 0,	/* default */
+	SCOLS_JSON_NUMBER    = 1,
+	SCOLS_JSON_BOOLEAN   = 2
+};
+
+/*
+ * Cell flags, see scols_cell_set_flags() before use
+ */
+enum {
+	/* alignment evaluated in order: right,center,left */
+	SCOLS_CELL_FL_LEFT    = 0,
+	SCOLS_CELL_FL_CENTER  = (1 << 0),
+	SCOLS_CELL_FL_RIGHT   = (1 << 1)
 };
 
 extern struct libscols_iter *scols_new_iter(int direction);
 extern void scols_free_iter(struct libscols_iter *itr);
 extern void scols_reset_iter(struct libscols_iter *itr, int direction);
-extern int scols_iter_get_direction(struct libscols_iter *itr);
+extern int scols_iter_get_direction(const struct libscols_iter *itr);
 
 /* init.c */
 extern void scols_init_debug(int mask);
@@ -101,50 +122,78 @@ extern int scols_get_library_version(const char **ver_string);
 extern struct libscols_symbols *scols_new_symbols(void);
 extern void scols_ref_symbols(struct libscols_symbols *sy);
 extern void scols_unref_symbols(struct libscols_symbols *sy);
-extern struct libscols_symbols *scols_copy_symbols(const struct libscols_symbols *sb);
-extern int scols_symbols_set_branch(struct libscols_symbols *sb, const char *str);
-extern int scols_symbols_set_vertical(struct libscols_symbols *sb, const char *str);
-extern int scols_symbols_set_right(struct libscols_symbols *sb, const char *str);
+extern struct libscols_symbols *scols_copy_symbols(const struct libscols_symbols *sy);
+extern int scols_symbols_set_branch(struct libscols_symbols *sy, const char *str);
+extern int scols_symbols_set_vertical(struct libscols_symbols *sy, const char *str);
+extern int scols_symbols_set_right(struct libscols_symbols *sy, const char *str);
+extern int scols_symbols_set_title_padding(struct libscols_symbols *sy, const char *str);
+extern int scols_symbols_set_cell_padding(struct libscols_symbols *sy, const char *str);
 
 /* cell.c */
 extern int scols_reset_cell(struct libscols_cell *ce);
 extern int scols_cell_copy_content(struct libscols_cell *dest,
 				   const struct libscols_cell *src);
-extern int scols_cell_set_data(struct libscols_cell *ce, const char *str);
-extern int scols_cell_refer_data(struct libscols_cell *ce, char *str);
+extern int scols_cell_set_data(struct libscols_cell *ce, const char *data);
+extern int scols_cell_refer_data(struct libscols_cell *ce, char *data);
 extern const char *scols_cell_get_data(const struct libscols_cell *ce);
 extern int scols_cell_set_color(struct libscols_cell *ce, const char *color);
 extern const char *scols_cell_get_color(const struct libscols_cell *ce);
 
+extern int scols_cell_set_flags(struct libscols_cell *ce, int flags);
+extern int scols_cell_get_flags(const struct libscols_cell *ce);
+extern int scols_cell_get_alignment(const struct libscols_cell *ce);
+
 extern void *scols_cell_get_userdata(struct libscols_cell *ce);
 extern int scols_cell_set_userdata(struct libscols_cell *ce, void *data);
 
 extern int scols_cmpstr_cells(struct libscols_cell *a,
 			      struct libscols_cell *b, void *data);
 /* column.c */
-extern int scols_column_is_tree(struct libscols_column *cl);
-extern int scols_column_is_trunc(struct libscols_column *cl);
-extern int scols_column_is_right(struct libscols_column *cl);
-extern int scols_column_is_strict_width(struct libscols_column *cl);
-extern int scols_column_is_noextremes(struct libscols_column *cl);
+extern int scols_column_is_tree(const struct libscols_column *cl);
+extern int scols_column_is_trunc(const struct libscols_column *cl);
+extern int scols_column_is_right(const struct libscols_column *cl);
+extern int scols_column_is_strict_width(const struct libscols_column *cl);
+extern int scols_column_is_hidden(const struct libscols_column *cl);
+extern int scols_column_is_noextremes(const struct libscols_column *cl);
+extern int scols_column_is_wrap(const struct libscols_column *cl);
+extern int scols_column_is_customwrap(const struct libscols_column *cl);
+
+extern size_t scols_column_get_width(const struct libscols_column *cl);
+
+extern int scols_column_set_safechars(struct libscols_column *cl, const char *safe);
+extern const char *scols_column_get_safechars(const struct libscols_column *cl);
+
+extern int scols_column_set_json_type(struct libscols_column *cl, int type);
+extern int scols_column_get_json_type(const struct libscols_column *cl);
 
 extern int scols_column_set_flags(struct libscols_column *cl, int flags);
-extern int scols_column_get_flags(struct libscols_column *cl);
+extern int scols_column_get_flags(const struct libscols_column *cl);
 extern struct libscols_column *scols_new_column(void);
 extern void scols_ref_column(struct libscols_column *cl);
 extern void scols_unref_column(struct libscols_column *cl);
 extern struct libscols_column *scols_copy_column(const struct libscols_column *cl);
 extern int scols_column_set_whint(struct libscols_column *cl, double whint);
-extern double scols_column_get_whint(struct libscols_column *cl);
+extern double scols_column_get_whint(const struct libscols_column *cl);
 extern struct libscols_cell *scols_column_get_header(struct libscols_column *cl);
 extern int scols_column_set_color(struct libscols_column *cl, const char *color);
-extern const char *scols_column_get_color(struct libscols_column *cl);
+extern const char *scols_column_get_color(const struct libscols_column *cl);
+extern struct libscols_table *scols_column_get_table(const struct libscols_column *cl);
 
 extern int scols_column_set_cmpfunc(struct libscols_column *cl,
 			int (*cmp)(struct libscols_cell *a,
 				   struct libscols_cell *b, void *),
 			void *data);
 
+extern int scols_column_set_wrapfunc(struct libscols_column *cl,
+			size_t (*wrap_chunksize)(const struct libscols_column *,
+					 const char *, void *),
+			char * (*wrap_nextchunk)(const struct libscols_column *,
+					 char *, void *),
+			void *userdata);
+
+extern char *scols_wrapnl_nextchunk(const struct libscols_column *cl, char *data, void *userdata);
+extern size_t scols_wrapnl_chunksize(const struct libscols_column *cl, const char *data, void *userdata);
+
 /* line.c */
 extern struct libscols_line *scols_new_line(void);
 extern void scols_ref_line(struct libscols_line *ln);
@@ -156,36 +205,52 @@ extern void *scols_line_get_userdata(struct libscols_line *ln);
 extern int scols_line_remove_child(struct libscols_line *ln, struct libscols_line *child);
 extern int scols_line_add_child(struct libscols_line *ln, struct libscols_line *child);
 extern int scols_line_has_children(struct libscols_line *ln);
+extern int scols_line_is_ancestor(struct libscols_line *ln, struct libscols_line *parent);
 extern int scols_line_next_child(struct libscols_line *ln,
 			  struct libscols_iter *itr, struct libscols_line **chld);
-extern struct libscols_line *scols_line_get_parent(struct libscols_line *ln);
+extern struct libscols_line *scols_line_get_parent(const struct libscols_line *ln);
 extern int scols_line_set_color(struct libscols_line *ln, const char *color);
-extern const char *scols_line_get_color(struct libscols_line *ln);
-extern size_t scols_line_get_ncells(struct libscols_line *ln);
+extern const char *scols_line_get_color(const struct libscols_line *ln);
+extern size_t scols_line_get_ncells(const struct libscols_line *ln);
 extern struct libscols_cell *scols_line_get_cell(struct libscols_line *ln, size_t n);
 extern struct libscols_cell *scols_line_get_column_cell(
 		                        struct libscols_line *ln,
 		                        struct libscols_column *cl);
 extern int scols_line_set_data(struct libscols_line *ln, size_t n, const char *data);
 extern int scols_line_refer_data(struct libscols_line *ln, size_t n, char *data);
-extern struct libscols_line *scols_copy_line(struct libscols_line *ln);
+extern int scols_line_set_column_data(struct libscols_line *ln, struct libscols_column *cl, const char *data);
+extern int scols_line_refer_column_data(struct libscols_line *ln, struct libscols_column *cl, char *data);
+extern struct libscols_line *scols_copy_line(const struct libscols_line *ln);
 
 /* table */
-extern int scols_table_colors_wanted(struct libscols_table *tb);
-extern int scols_table_is_raw(struct libscols_table *tb);
-extern int scols_table_is_ascii(struct libscols_table *tb);
-extern int scols_table_is_noheadings(struct libscols_table *tb);
-extern int scols_table_is_empty(struct libscols_table *tb);
-extern int scols_table_is_export(struct libscols_table *tb);
-extern int scols_table_is_maxout(struct libscols_table *tb);
-extern int scols_table_is_tree(struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_colors_wanted(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_set_name(struct libscols_table *tb, const char *name);
+extern const char *scols_table_get_name(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern struct libscols_cell *scols_table_get_title(struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_is_raw(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_is_ascii(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_is_json(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_is_noheadings(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_is_header_repeat(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_is_empty(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_is_export(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_is_maxout(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_is_nowrap(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_is_nolinesep(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_is_tree(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_is_noencoding(const struct libscols_table *tb);
 
 extern int scols_table_enable_colors(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable);
 extern int scols_table_enable_raw(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable);
 extern int scols_table_enable_ascii(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable);
+extern int scols_table_enable_json(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable);
 extern int scols_table_enable_noheadings(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable);
+extern int scols_table_enable_header_repeat(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable);
 extern int scols_table_enable_export(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable);
 extern int scols_table_enable_maxout(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable);
+extern int scols_table_enable_nowrap(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable);
+extern int scols_table_enable_nolinesep(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable);
+extern int scols_table_enable_noencoding(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable);
 
 extern int scols_table_set_column_separator(struct libscols_table *tb, const char *sep);
 extern int scols_table_set_line_separator(struct libscols_table *tb, const char *sep);
@@ -196,12 +261,13 @@ extern void scols_unref_table(struct libscols_table *tb);
 extern int scols_table_add_column(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_column *cl);
 extern int scols_table_remove_column(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_column *cl);
 extern int scols_table_remove_columns(struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_move_column(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_column *pre, struct libscols_column *cl);
 extern struct libscols_column *scols_table_new_column(struct libscols_table *tb, const char *name, double whint, int flags);
 extern int scols_table_next_column(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_iter *itr, struct libscols_column **cl);
-extern char *scols_table_get_column_separator(struct libscols_table *tb);
-extern char *scols_table_get_line_separator(struct libscols_table *tb);
-extern int scols_table_get_ncols(struct libscols_table *tb);
-extern int scols_table_get_nlines(struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern const char *scols_table_get_column_separator(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern const char *scols_table_get_line_separator(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern size_t scols_table_get_ncols(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern size_t scols_table_get_nlines(const struct libscols_table *tb);
 extern struct libscols_column *scols_table_get_column(struct libscols_table *tb, size_t n);
 extern int scols_table_add_line(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_line *ln);
 extern int scols_table_remove_line(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_line *ln);
@@ -211,17 +277,43 @@ extern struct libscols_line *scols_table_new_line(struct libscols_table *tb, str
 extern struct libscols_line *scols_table_get_line(struct libscols_table *tb, size_t n);
 extern struct libscols_table *scols_copy_table(struct libscols_table *tb);
 extern int scols_table_set_symbols(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_symbols *sy);
+extern int scols_table_set_default_symbols(struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern struct libscols_symbols *scols_table_get_symbols(const struct libscols_table *tb);
 
 extern int scols_table_set_stream(struct libscols_table *tb, FILE *stream);
-extern FILE *scols_table_get_stream(struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern FILE *scols_table_get_stream(const struct libscols_table *tb);
 extern int scols_table_reduce_termwidth(struct libscols_table *tb, size_t reduce);
 
 extern int scols_sort_table(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_column *cl);
+extern int scols_sort_table_by_tree(struct libscols_table *tb);
+/*
+ *
+ */
+enum {
+	SCOLS_TERMFORCE_AUTO = 0,
+	SCOLS_TERMFORCE_NEVER,
+	SCOLS_TERMFORCE_ALWAYS
+};
+extern int scols_table_set_termforce(struct libscols_table *tb, int force);
+extern int scols_table_get_termforce(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_set_termwidth(struct libscols_table *tb, size_t width);
+extern size_t scols_table_get_termwidth(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+extern int scols_table_set_termheight(struct libscols_table *tb, size_t height);
+extern size_t scols_table_get_termheight(const struct libscols_table *tb);
+
 
 /* table_print.c */
 extern int scols_print_table(struct libscols_table *tb);
 extern int scols_print_table_to_string(struct libscols_table *tb, char **data);
 
+extern int scols_table_print_range(	struct libscols_table *tb,
+					struct libscols_line *start,
+					struct libscols_line *end);
+extern int scols_table_print_range_to_string(	struct libscols_table *tb,
+						struct libscols_line *start,
+						struct libscols_line *end,
+						char **data);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.sym b/libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.sym
index a4de524f4..331a55554 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.sym
+++ b/libsmartcols/src/libsmartcols.sym
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * symbols since util-linux 2.25
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2014-2016 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
  */
 SMARTCOLS_2.25 {
 global:
@@ -110,3 +112,73 @@ global:
 local:
 	*;
 };
+
+SMARTCOLS_2.27 {
+global:
+	scols_column_is_hidden;
+	scols_table_enable_json;
+	scols_table_is_json;
+	scols_table_set_name;
+} SMARTCOLS_2.25;
+
+SMARTCOLS_2.28 {
+global:
+	scols_column_is_wrap;
+	scols_line_refer_column_data;
+	scols_line_set_column_data;
+	scols_symbols_set_title_padding;
+	scols_table_enable_nowrap;
+	scols_table_get_title;
+	scols_cell_get_flags;
+	scols_cell_set_flags;
+	scols_table_print_range;
+	scols_table_print_range_to_string;
+	scols_table_enable_nolinesep;
+} SMARTCOLS_2.27;
+
+SMARTCOLS_2.29 {
+global:
+	scols_column_get_safechars;
+	scols_column_get_table;
+	scols_column_get_width;
+	scols_column_is_customwrap;
+	scols_column_set_safechars;
+	scols_column_set_wrapfunc;
+	scols_symbols_set_cell_padding;
+	scols_table_get_name;
+	scols_table_get_symbols;
+	scols_table_get_termforce;
+	scols_table_get_termwidth;
+	scols_table_is_nolinesep;
+	scols_table_is_nowrap;
+	scols_table_set_default_symbols;
+	scols_table_set_termforce;
+	scols_table_set_termwidth;
+	scols_wrapnl_chunksize;
+	scols_wrapnl_nextchunk;
+} SMARTCOLS_2.28;
+
+
+SMARTCOLS_2.30 {
+global:
+	scols_cell_get_alignment;
+	scols_table_move_column;
+	scols_sort_table_by_tree;
+	scols_line_is_ancestor;
+} SMARTCOLS_2.29;
+
+
+SMARTCOLS_2.31 {
+	scols_table_set_termheight;
+	scols_table_get_termheight;
+	scols_table_is_header_repeat;
+	scols_table_enable_header_repeat;
+	scols_table_enable_noencoding;
+	scols_table_is_noencoding;
+} SMARTCOLS_2.30;
+
+
+SMARTCOLS_2.33 {
+	scols_column_set_json_type;
+	scols_column_get_json_type;
+} SMARTCOLS_2.31;
diff --git a/libsmartcols/src/line.c b/libsmartcols/src/line.c
index debfeab78..60be2c135 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/src/line.c
+++ b/libsmartcols/src/line.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 /**
  * SECTION: line
  * @title: Line
- * @short_description: line API
+ * @short_description: cells container, also keeps tree (parent->child) information
  *
  * An API to access and modify per-line data and information.
  */
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ void scols_ref_line(struct libscols_line *ln)
  */
 void scols_unref_line(struct libscols_line *ln)
 {
-
 	if (ln && --ln->refcount <= 0) {
 		DBG(CELL, ul_debugobj(ln, "dealloc"));
 		list_del(&ln->ln_lines);
@@ -122,8 +121,6 @@ int scols_line_alloc_cells(struct libscols_line *ln, size_t n)
 {
 	struct libscols_cell *ce;
 
-	assert(ln);
-
 	if (!ln)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (ln->ncells == n)
@@ -149,6 +146,35 @@ int scols_line_alloc_cells(struct libscols_line *ln, size_t n)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int scols_line_move_cells(struct libscols_line *ln, size_t newn, size_t oldn)
+{
+	struct libscols_cell ce;
+
+	if (!ln || newn >= ln->ncells || oldn >= ln->ncells)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (oldn == newn)
+		return 0;
+
+	DBG(LINE, ul_debugobj(ln, "move cells[%zu] -> cells[%zu]", oldn, newn));
+
+	/* remember data from old position */
+	memcpy(&ce, &ln->cells[oldn], sizeof(struct libscols_cell));
+
+	/* remove old position (move data behind oldn to oldn) */
+	if (oldn + 1 < ln->ncells)
+		memmove(ln->cells + oldn, ln->cells + oldn + 1,
+			(ln->ncells - oldn - 1) * sizeof(struct libscols_cell));
+
+	/* create a space for new position */
+	if (newn + 1 < ln->ncells)
+		memmove(ln->cells + newn + 1, ln->cells + newn,
+			(ln->ncells - newn - 1) * sizeof(struct libscols_cell));
+
+	/* copy original data to new position */
+	memcpy(&ln->cells[newn], &ce, sizeof(struct libscols_cell));
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /**
  * scols_line_set_userdata:
  * @ln: a pointer to a struct libscols_line instance
@@ -160,7 +186,6 @@ int scols_line_alloc_cells(struct libscols_line *ln, size_t n)
  */
 int scols_line_set_userdata(struct libscols_line *ln, void *data)
 {
-	assert(ln);
 	if (!ln)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	ln->userdata = data;
@@ -171,12 +196,11 @@ int scols_line_set_userdata(struct libscols_line *ln, void *data)
  * scols_line_get_userdata:
  * @ln: a pointer to a struct libscols_line instance
  *
- * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ * Returns: user data
  */
 void *scols_line_get_userdata(struct libscols_line *ln)
 {
-	assert(ln);
-	return ln ? ln->userdata : NULL;
+	return ln->userdata;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -190,13 +214,10 @@ void *scols_line_get_userdata(struct libscols_line *ln)
  */
 int scols_line_remove_child(struct libscols_line *ln, struct libscols_line *child)
 {
-	assert(ln);
-	assert(child);
-
 	if (!ln || !child)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	DBG(LINE, ul_debugobj(ln, "remove child %p", child));
+	DBG(LINE, ul_debugobj(ln, "remove child"));
 
 	list_del_init(&child->ln_children);
 	child->parent = NULL;
@@ -217,26 +238,22 @@ int scols_line_remove_child(struct libscols_line *ln, struct libscols_line *chil
  */
 int scols_line_add_child(struct libscols_line *ln, struct libscols_line *child)
 {
-	assert(ln);
-	assert(child);
-
 	if (!ln || !child)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	DBG(LINE, ul_debugobj(ln, "add child"));
+	scols_ref_line(child);
+	scols_ref_line(ln);
+
 	/* unref old<->parent */
 	if (child->parent)
 		scols_line_remove_child(child->parent, child);
 
-	DBG(LINE, ul_debugobj(ln, "add child %p", child));
-
 	/* new reference from parent to child */
 	list_add_tail(&child->ln_children, &ln->ln_branch);
-	scols_ref_line(child);
 
 	/* new reference from child to parent */
 	child->parent = ln;
-	scols_ref_line(ln);
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -246,9 +263,8 @@ int scols_line_add_child(struct libscols_line *ln, struct libscols_line *child)
  *
  * Returns: a pointer to @ln's parent, NULL in case it has no parent or if there was an error.
  */
-struct libscols_line *scols_line_get_parent(struct libscols_line *ln)
+struct libscols_line *scols_line_get_parent(const struct libscols_line *ln)
 {
-	assert(ln);
 	return ln ? ln->parent : NULL;
 }
 
@@ -260,7 +276,6 @@ struct libscols_line *scols_line_get_parent(struct libscols_line *ln)
  */
 int scols_line_has_children(struct libscols_line *ln)
 {
-	assert(ln);
 	return ln ? !list_empty(&ln->ln_branch) : 0;
 }
 
@@ -294,29 +309,44 @@ int scols_line_next_child(struct libscols_line *ln,
 	return rc;
 }
 
+
+/**
+ * scols_line_is_ancestor:
+ * @ln: line
+ * @parent: potential parent
+ *
+ * The function is designed to detect circular dependencies between @ln and
+ * @parent. It checks if @ln is not any (grand) parent in the @parent's tree.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.30
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 or 1
+ */
+int scols_line_is_ancestor(struct libscols_line *ln, struct libscols_line *parent)
+{
+	while (parent) {
+		if (parent == ln)
+			return 1;
+		parent = scols_line_get_parent(parent);
+	};
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /**
  * scols_line_set_color:
  * @ln: a pointer to a struct libscols_line instance
- * @color: ESC sequence
+ * @color: color name or ESC sequence
  *
  * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
 int scols_line_set_color(struct libscols_line *ln, const char *color)
 {
-	char *p = NULL;
-
-	assert(ln);
-	if (!ln)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	if (color) {
-		p = strdup(color);
-		if (!p)
-			return -ENOMEM;
+	if (color && isalnum(*color)) {
+		color = color_sequence_from_colorname(color);
+		if (!color)
+			return -EINVAL;
 	}
-
-	free(ln->color);
-	ln->color = p;
-	return 0;
+	return strdup_to_struct_member(ln, color, color);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -325,22 +355,20 @@ int scols_line_set_color(struct libscols_line *ln, const char *color)
  *
  * Returns: @ln's color string, NULL in case of an error.
  */
-const char *scols_line_get_color(struct libscols_line *ln)
+const char *scols_line_get_color(const struct libscols_line *ln)
 {
-	assert(ln);
-	return ln ? ln->color : NULL;
+	return ln->color;
 }
 
 /**
  * scols_line_get_ncells:
  * @ln: a pointer to a struct libscols_line instance
  *
- * Returns: @ln's number of cells
+ * Returns: number of cells
  */
-size_t scols_line_get_ncells(struct libscols_line *ln)
+size_t scols_line_get_ncells(const struct libscols_line *ln)
 {
-	assert(ln);
-	return ln ? ln->ncells : 0;
+	return ln->ncells;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -353,8 +381,6 @@ size_t scols_line_get_ncells(struct libscols_line *ln)
 struct libscols_cell *scols_line_get_cell(struct libscols_line *ln,
 					  size_t n)
 {
-	assert(ln);
-
 	if (!ln || n >= ln->ncells)
 		return NULL;
 	return &ln->cells[n];
@@ -373,15 +399,15 @@ struct libscols_cell *scols_line_get_column_cell(
 			struct libscols_line *ln,
 			struct libscols_column *cl)
 {
-	assert(ln);
-	assert(cl);
+	if (!ln || !cl)
+		return NULL;
 
 	return scols_line_get_cell(ln, cl->seqnum);
 }
 
 /**
  * scols_line_set_data:
- * @ln: a pointer to a struct libscols_cell instance
+ * @ln: a pointer to a struct libscols_line instance
  * @n: number of the cell, whose data is to be set
  * @data: actual data to set
  *
@@ -396,9 +422,28 @@ int scols_line_set_data(struct libscols_line *ln, size_t n, const char *data)
 	return scols_cell_set_data(ce, data);
 }
 
+/**
+ * scols_line_set_column_data:
+ * @ln: a pointer to a struct libscols_line instance
+ * @cl: column, whose data is to be set
+ * @data: actual data to set
+ *
+ * The same as scols_line_set_data() but cell is referenced by column object.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.28
+ */
+int scols_line_set_column_data(struct libscols_line *ln,
+			       struct libscols_column *cl,
+			       const char *data)
+{
+	return scols_line_set_data(ln, cl->seqnum, data);
+}
+
 /**
  * scols_line_refer_data:
- * @ln: a pointer to a struct libscols_cell instance
+ * @ln: a pointer to a struct libscols_line instance
  * @n: number of the cell which will refer to @data
  * @data: actual data to refer to
  *
@@ -413,18 +458,36 @@ int scols_line_refer_data(struct libscols_line *ln, size_t n, char *data)
 	return scols_cell_refer_data(ce, data);
 }
 
+/**
+ * scols_line_refer_column_data:
+ * @ln: a pointer to a struct libscols_line instance
+ * @cl: column, whose data is to be set
+ * @data: actual data to refer to
+ *
+ * The same as scols_line_refer_data() but cell is referenced by column object.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.28
+ */
+int scols_line_refer_column_data(struct libscols_line *ln,
+			       struct libscols_column *cl,
+			       char *data)
+{
+	return scols_line_refer_data(ln, cl->seqnum, data);
+}
+
 /**
  * scols_copy_line:
- * @ln: a pointer to a struct libscols_cell instance
+ * @ln: a pointer to a struct libscols_line instance
  *
  * Returns: A newly allocated copy of @ln, NULL in case of an error.
  */
-struct libscols_line *scols_copy_line(struct libscols_line *ln)
+struct libscols_line *scols_copy_line(const struct libscols_line *ln)
 {
 	struct libscols_line *ret;
 	size_t i;
 
-	assert (ln);
 	if (!ln)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -440,7 +503,7 @@ struct libscols_line *scols_copy_line(struct libscols_line *ln)
 	ret->ncells   = ln->ncells;
 	ret->seqnum   = ln->seqnum;
 
-	DBG(LINE, ul_debugobj(ln, "copy to %p", ret));
+	DBG(LINE, ul_debugobj(ln, "copy"));
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ret->ncells; ++i) {
 		if (scols_cell_copy_content(&ret->cells[i], &ln->cells[i]))
@@ -452,5 +515,3 @@ err:
 	scols_unref_line(ret);
 	return NULL;
 }
-
-
diff --git a/libsmartcols/src/smartcolsP.h b/libsmartcols/src/smartcolsP.h
index cea4f3101..398e6f064 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/src/smartcolsP.h
+++ b/libsmartcols/src/smartcolsP.h
@@ -13,23 +13,18 @@
 
 #include "c.h"
 #include "list.h"
+#include "strutils.h"
 #include "colors.h"
 #include "debug.h"
 
-#include "libsmartcols.h"
-
-/* features */
-#define CONFIG_LIBSMARTCOLS_ASSERT
+#include <assert.h>
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_LIBSMARTCOLS_ASSERT
-# include <assert.h>
-#else
-# define assert(x)
-#endif
+#include "libsmartcols.h"
 
 /*
  * Debug
  */
+#define SCOLS_DEBUG_HELP	(1 << 0)
 #define SCOLS_DEBUG_INIT	(1 << 1)
 #define SCOLS_DEBUG_CELL	(1 << 2)
 #define SCOLS_DEBUG_LINE	(1 << 3)
@@ -43,7 +38,7 @@ UL_DEBUG_DECLARE_MASK(libsmartcols);
 #define ON_DBG(m, x)	__UL_DBG_CALL(libsmartcols, SCOLS_DEBUG_, m, x)
 #define DBG_FLUSH	__UL_DBG_FLUSH(libsmartcols, SCOLS_DEBUG_)
 
-#define UL_DEBUG_CURRENT_MASK  UL_DEBUG_MASK(libsmartcols)
+#define UL_DEBUG_CURRENT_MASK	UL_DEBUG_MASK(libsmartcols)
 #include "debugobj.h"
 
 /*
@@ -63,6 +58,8 @@ struct libscols_symbols {
 	char	*branch;
 	char	*vert;
 	char	*right;
+	char	*title_padding;
+	char	*cell_padding;
 };
 
 /*
@@ -72,8 +69,10 @@ struct libscols_cell {
 	char	*data;
 	char	*color;
 	void    *userdata;
+	int	flags;
 };
 
+extern int scols_line_move_cells(struct libscols_line *ln, size_t newn, size_t oldn);
 
 /*
  * Table column
@@ -86,19 +85,36 @@ struct libscols_column {
 	size_t	width_min;	/* minimal width (usually header width) */
 	size_t  width_max;	/* maximal width */
 	size_t  width_avg;	/* average width, used to detect extreme fields */
+	size_t	width_treeart;	/* size of the tree ascii art */
 	double	width_hint;	/* hint (N < 1 is in percent of termwidth) */
 
+	int	json_type;	/* SCOLS_JSON_* */
+
 	int	flags;
 	int	is_extreme;
 	char	*color;		/* default column color */
+	char	*safechars;	/* do not encode this bytes */
+
+	char	*pending_data;
+	size_t	pending_data_sz;
+	char	*pending_data_buf;
 
 	int (*cmpfunc)(struct libscols_cell *,
 		       struct libscols_cell *,
 		       void *);			/* cells comparison function */
 	void *cmpfunc_data;
 
+	size_t (*wrap_chunksize)(const struct libscols_column *,
+			const char *, void *);
+	char *(*wrap_nextchunk)(const struct libscols_column *,
+			char *, void *);
+	void *wrapfunc_data;
+
+
 	struct libscols_cell	header;
 	struct list_head	cl_columns;
+
+	struct libscols_table	*table;
 };
 
 /*
@@ -124,7 +140,8 @@ struct libscols_line {
 enum {
 	SCOLS_FMT_HUMAN = 0,		/* default, human readable */
 	SCOLS_FMT_RAW,			/* space separated */
-	SCOLS_FMT_EXPORT		/* COLNAME="data" ... */
+	SCOLS_FMT_EXPORT,		/* COLNAME="data" ... */
+	SCOLS_FMT_JSON			/* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON */
 };
 
 /*
@@ -132,11 +149,14 @@ enum {
  */
 struct libscols_table {
 	int	refcount;
+	char	*name;		/* optional table name (for JSON) */
 	size_t	ncols;		/* number of columns */
 	size_t  ntreecols;	/* number of columns with SCOLS_FL_TREE */
 	size_t	nlines;		/* number of lines */
-	size_t	termwidth;	/* terminal width */
+	size_t	termwidth;	/* terminal width (number of columns) */
+	size_t  termheight;	/* terminal height  (number of lines) */
 	size_t  termreduce;	/* extra blank space */
+	int	termforce;	/* SCOLS_TERMFORCE_* */
 	FILE	*out;		/* output stream */
 
 	char	*colsep;	/* column separator */
@@ -145,15 +165,28 @@ struct libscols_table {
 	struct list_head	tb_columns;
 	struct list_head	tb_lines;
 	struct libscols_symbols	*symbols;
+	struct libscols_cell	title;		/* optional table title (for humans) */
 
+	int	indent;		/* indention counter */
+	int	indent_last_sep;/* last printed has been line separator */
 	int	format;		/* SCOLS_FMT_* */
 
+	size_t	termlines_used;	/* printed line counter */
+	size_t	header_next;	/* where repeat header */
+
 	/* flags */
 	unsigned int	ascii		:1,	/* don't use unicode */
 			colors_wanted	:1,	/* enable colors */
 			is_term		:1,	/* isatty() */
-			maxout		:1,	/* maximalize output */
-			no_headings	:1;	/* don't print header */
+			padding_debug	:1,	/* output visible padding chars */
+			maxout		:1,	/* maximize output */
+			header_repeat   :1,     /* print header after libscols_table->termheight */
+			header_printed  :1,	/* header already printed */
+			priv_symbols	:1,	/* default private symbols */
+			no_headings	:1,	/* don't print header */
+			no_encode	:1,	/* don't care about control and non-printable chars */
+			no_linesep	:1,	/* don't print line separator */
+			no_wrap		:1;	/* never wrap lines */
 };
 
 #define IS_ITER_FORWARD(_i)	((_i)->direction == SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD)
@@ -173,4 +206,13 @@ struct libscols_table {
 				(itr)->p->next : (itr)->p->prev; \
 	} while(0)
 
+
+static inline int scols_iter_is_last(const struct libscols_iter *itr)
+{
+	if (!itr || !itr->head || !itr->p)
+		return 0;
+
+	return itr->p == itr->head;
+}
+
 #endif /* _LIBSMARTCOLS_PRIVATE_H */
diff --git a/libsmartcols/src/symbols.c b/libsmartcols/src/symbols.c
index 2b8f81dc9..6ddf1869b 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/src/symbols.c
+++ b/libsmartcols/src/symbols.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  * symbols.c - routines for symbol handling
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2014 Ondrej Oprala <ooprala@redhat.com>
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 Igor Gnatenko <i.gnatenko.brain@gmail.com>
  *
  * This file may be redistributed under the terms of the
  * GNU Lesser General Public License.
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@
 /**
  * SECTION: symbols
  * @title: Symbols
- * @short_description: symbols API
+ * @short_description: allows to overwrite default output chars (for ascii art)
  *
  * An API to access and modify data and information per symbol/symbol group.
  */
@@ -61,115 +62,112 @@ void scols_unref_symbols(struct libscols_symbols *sy)
 		free(sy->branch);
 		free(sy->vert);
 		free(sy->right);
+		free(sy->title_padding);
+		free(sy->cell_padding);
 		free(sy);
 	}
 }
 
 /**
  * scols_symbols_set_branch:
- * @sb: a pointer to a struct libscols_symbols instance
+ * @sy: a pointer to a struct libscols_symbols instance
  * @str: a string which will represent the branch part of a tree output
  *
  * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
-int scols_symbols_set_branch(struct libscols_symbols *sb, const char *str)
+int scols_symbols_set_branch(struct libscols_symbols *sy, const char *str)
 {
-	char *p = NULL;
-
-	assert(sb);
-
-	if (!sb)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	if (str) {
-		p = strdup(str);
-		if (!p)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-	free(sb->branch);
-	sb->branch = p;
-	return 0;
+	return strdup_to_struct_member(sy, branch, str);
 }
 
 /**
  * scols_symbols_set_vertical:
- * @sb: a pointer to a struct libscols_symbols instance
+ * @sy: a pointer to a struct libscols_symbols instance
  * @str: a string which will represent the vertical part of a tree output
  *
  * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
-int scols_symbols_set_vertical(struct libscols_symbols *sb, const char *str)
+int scols_symbols_set_vertical(struct libscols_symbols *sy, const char *str)
 {
-	char *p = NULL;
-
-	assert(sb);
-
-	if (!sb)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	if (str) {
-		p = strdup(str);
-		if (!p)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-	free(sb->vert);
-	sb->vert = p;
-	return 0;
+	return strdup_to_struct_member(sy, vert, str);
 }
 
 /**
  * scols_symbols_set_right:
- * @sb: a pointer to a struct libscols_symbols instance
+ * @sy: a pointer to a struct libscols_symbols instance
  * @str: a string which will represent the right part of a tree output
  *
  * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
-int scols_symbols_set_right(struct libscols_symbols *sb, const char *str)
+int scols_symbols_set_right(struct libscols_symbols *sy, const char *str)
 {
-	char *p = NULL;
+	return strdup_to_struct_member(sy, right, str);
+}
 
-	assert(sb);
+/**
+ * scols_symbols_set_title_padding:
+ * @sy: a pointer to a struct libscols_symbols instance
+ * @str: a string which will represent the symbols which fill title output
+ *
+ * The current implementation uses only the first byte from the padding string.
+ * A multibyte chars are not supported yet.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.28
+ */
+int scols_symbols_set_title_padding(struct libscols_symbols *sy, const char *str)
+{
+	return strdup_to_struct_member(sy, title_padding, str);
+}
 
-	if (!sb)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	if (str) {
-		p = strdup(str);
-		if (!p)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-	free(sb->right);
-	sb->right = p;
-	return 0;
+/**
+ * scols_symbols_set_cell_padding:
+ * @sy: a pointer to a struct libscols_symbols instance
+ * @str: a string which will represent the symbols which fill cells
+ *
+ * The padding char has to take up just one cell on the terminal.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+int scols_symbols_set_cell_padding(struct libscols_symbols *sy, const char *str)
+{
+	return strdup_to_struct_member(sy, cell_padding, str);
 }
 
 /**
  * scols_copy_symbols:
- * @sb: a pointer to a struct libscols_symbols instance
+ * @sy: a pointer to a struct libscols_symbols instance
  *
- * Returns: a newly allocated copy of the @sb symbol group or NULL in caes of an error.
+ * Returns: a newly allocated copy of the @sy symbol group or NULL in case of an error.
  */
-struct libscols_symbols *scols_copy_symbols(const struct libscols_symbols *sb)
+struct libscols_symbols *scols_copy_symbols(const struct libscols_symbols *sy)
 {
 	struct libscols_symbols *ret;
 	int rc;
 
-	assert(sb);
-	if (!sb)
+	assert(sy);
+	if (!sy)
 		return NULL;
 
 	ret = scols_new_symbols();
 	if (!ret)
 		return NULL;
 
-	rc = scols_symbols_set_branch(ret, sb->branch);
+	rc = scols_symbols_set_branch(ret, sy->branch);
+	if (!rc)
+		rc = scols_symbols_set_vertical(ret, sy->vert);
 	if (!rc)
-		rc = scols_symbols_set_vertical(ret, sb->vert);
+		rc = scols_symbols_set_right(ret, sy->right);
 	if (!rc)
-		rc = scols_symbols_set_right(ret, sb->right);
+		rc = scols_symbols_set_title_padding(ret, sy->title_padding);
+	if (!rc)
+		rc = scols_symbols_set_cell_padding(ret, sy->cell_padding);
 	if (!rc)
 		return ret;
 
 	scols_unref_symbols(ret);
 	return NULL;
-
 }
-
-
diff --git a/libsmartcols/src/table.c b/libsmartcols/src/table.c
index 8c404f858..979a09a39 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/src/table.c
+++ b/libsmartcols/src/table.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
  * Copyright (C) 2014 Ondrej Oprala <ooprala@redhat.com>
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 Igor Gnatenko <i.gnatenko.brain@gmail.com>
  *
  * This file may be redistributed under the terms of the
  * GNU Lesser General Public License.
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@
 /**
  * SECTION: table
  * @title: Table
- * @short_description: table data API
+ * @short_description: container for rows and columns
  *
  * Table data manipulation API.
  */
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@
 #include <ctype.h>
 
 #include "nls.h"
-#include "widechar.h"
+#include "ttyutils.h"
 #include "smartcolsP.h"
 
 #ifdef HAVE_WIDECHAR
@@ -38,6 +39,20 @@
 		list_entry_is_last(&(_cl)->cl_columns, &(_tb)->tb_columns)
 
 
+static void check_padding_debug(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	const char *str;
+
+	assert(libsmartcols_debug_mask);	/* debug has to be enabled! */
+
+	str = getenv("LIBSMARTCOLS_DEBUG_PADDING");
+	if (!str || (strcmp(str, "on") != 0 && strcmp(str, "1") != 0))
+		return;
+
+	DBG(INIT, ul_debugobj(tb, "padding debug: ENABLE"));
+	tb->padding_debug = 1;
+}
+
 /**
  * scols_new_table:
  *
@@ -46,6 +61,7 @@
 struct libscols_table *scols_new_table(void)
 {
 	struct libscols_table *tb;
+	int c, l;
 
 	tb = calloc(1, sizeof(struct libscols_table));
 	if (!tb)
@@ -54,10 +70,16 @@ struct libscols_table *scols_new_table(void)
 	tb->refcount = 1;
 	tb->out = stdout;
 
+	get_terminal_dimension(&c, &l);
+	tb->termwidth  = c > 0 ? c : 80;
+	tb->termheight = l > 0 ? l : 24;
+
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tb->tb_lines);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tb->tb_columns);
 
 	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "alloc"));
+	ON_DBG(INIT, check_padding_debug(tb));
+
 	return tb;
 }
 
@@ -87,44 +109,102 @@ void scols_unref_table(struct libscols_table *tb)
 		scols_table_remove_lines(tb);
 		scols_table_remove_columns(tb);
 		scols_unref_symbols(tb->symbols);
+		scols_reset_cell(&tb->title);
 		free(tb->linesep);
 		free(tb->colsep);
+		free(tb->name);
 		free(tb);
 	}
 }
 
+/**
+ * scols_table_set_name:
+ * @tb: a pointer to a struct libscols_table instance
+ * @name: a name
+ *
+ * The table name is used for example for JSON top level object name.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative number in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.27
+ */
+int scols_table_set_name(struct libscols_table *tb, const char *name)
+{
+	return strdup_to_struct_member(tb, name, name);
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_get_name:
+ * @tb: a pointer to a struct libscols_table instance
+ *
+ * Returns: The current name setting of the table @tb
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+const char *scols_table_get_name(const struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	return tb->name;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_get_title:
+ * @tb: a pointer to a struct libscols_table instance
+ *
+ * The returned pointer is possible to modify by cell functions. Note that
+ * title output alignment on non-tty is hardcoded to 80 output chars. For the
+ * regular terminal it's based on terminal width.
+ *
+ * Returns: Title of the table, or NULL in case of blank title.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.28
+ */
+struct libscols_cell *scols_table_get_title(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	return &tb->title;
+}
+
 /**
  * scols_table_add_column:
  * @tb: a pointer to a struct libscols_table instance
  * @cl: a pointer to a struct libscols_column instance
  *
- * Adds @cl to @tb's column list.
+ * Adds @cl to @tb's column list. The column cannot be shared between more
+ * tables.
  *
  * Returns: 0, a negative number in case of an error.
  */
 int scols_table_add_column(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_column *cl)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	assert(cl);
+	struct libscols_iter itr;
+	struct libscols_line *ln;
+	int rc = 0;
 
-	if (!tb || !cl || !list_empty(&tb->tb_lines))
+	if (!tb || !cl || cl->table)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_TREE)
 		tb->ntreecols++;
 
-	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "add column %p", cl));
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "add column"));
 	list_add_tail(&cl->cl_columns, &tb->tb_columns);
 	cl->seqnum = tb->ncols++;
+	cl->table = tb;
 	scols_ref_column(cl);
 
-	/* TODO:
-	 *
-	 * Currently it's possible to add/remove columns only if the table is
-	 * empty (see list_empty(tb->tb_lines) above). It would be nice to
-	 * enlarge/reduce lines cells[] always when we add/remove a new column.
+	if (list_empty(&tb->tb_lines))
+		return 0;
+
+	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+
+	/* Realloc line cell arrays
 	 */
-	return 0;
+	while (scols_table_next_line(tb, &itr, &ln) == 0) {
+		rc = scols_line_alloc_cells(ln, tb->ncols);
+		if (rc)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return rc;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -139,18 +219,16 @@ int scols_table_add_column(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_column *cl
 int scols_table_remove_column(struct libscols_table *tb,
 			      struct libscols_column *cl)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	assert(cl);
-
 	if (!tb || !cl || !list_empty(&tb->tb_lines))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_TREE)
 		tb->ntreecols--;
 
-	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "remove column %p", cl));
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "remove column"));
 	list_del_init(&cl->cl_columns);
 	tb->ncols--;
+	cl->table = NULL;
 	scols_unref_column(cl);
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -165,8 +243,6 @@ int scols_table_remove_column(struct libscols_table *tb,
  */
 int scols_table_remove_columns(struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-
 	if (!tb || !list_empty(&tb->tb_lines))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -179,12 +255,64 @@ int scols_table_remove_columns(struct libscols_table *tb)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * scols_table_move_column:
+ * @tb: table
+ * @pre: column before the column
+ * @cl: column to move
+ *
+ * Move the @cl behind @pre. If the @pre is NULL then the @col is the first
+ * column in the table.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.30
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative number in case of an error.
+ */
+int scols_table_move_column(struct libscols_table *tb,
+			    struct libscols_column *pre,
+			    struct libscols_column *cl)
+{
+	struct list_head *head;
+	struct libscols_iter itr;
+	struct libscols_column *p;
+	struct libscols_line *ln;
+	size_t n = 0, oldseq;
+
+	if (!tb || !cl)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (pre && pre->seqnum + 1 == cl->seqnum)
+		return 0;
+	if (pre == NULL && cl->seqnum == 0)
+		return 0;
+
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "move column %zu behind %zu",
+				cl->seqnum, pre? pre->seqnum : 0));
+
+	list_del_init(&cl->cl_columns);		/* remove from old position */
+
+	head = pre ? &pre->cl_columns : &tb->tb_columns;
+	list_add(&cl->cl_columns, head);	/* add to the new place */
+
+	oldseq = cl->seqnum;
+
+	/* fix seq. numbers */
+	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+	while (scols_table_next_column(tb, &itr, &p) == 0)
+		p->seqnum = n++;
+
+	/* move data in lines */
+	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+	while (scols_table_next_line(tb, &itr, &ln) == 0)
+		scols_line_move_cells(ln, cl->seqnum, oldseq);
+	return 0;
+}
 
 /**
  * scols_table_new_column:
  * @tb: table
  * @name: column header
- * @whint: column width hint (absolute width: N > 1; relative width: N < 1)
+ * @whint: column width hint (absolute width: N > 1; relative width: 0 < N < 1)
  * @flags: flags integer
  *
  * This is shortcut for
@@ -193,17 +321,36 @@ int scols_table_remove_columns(struct libscols_table *tb)
  *   scols_column_set_....(cl, ...);
  *   scols_table_add_column(tb, cl);
  *
- * The column width is possible to define by three ways:
+ * The column width is possible to define by:
+ *
+ *  @whint: 0 < N < 1  : relative width, percent of terminal width
+ *
+ *  @whint: N >= 1     : absolute width, empty column will be truncated to
+ *                     the column header width if no specified STRICTWIDTH flag
  *
- *  @whint = 0..1    : relative width, percent of terminal width
+ * Note that if table has disabled "maxout" flag (disabled by default) than
+ * relative width is used as a hint only. It's possible that column will be
+ * narrow if the specified size is too large for column data.
  *
- *  @whint = 1..N    : absolute width, empty colum will be truncated to
- *                     the column header width
  *
- *  @whint = 1..N
+ * If the width of all columns is greater than terminal width then library
+ * tries to reduce width of the individual columns. It's done in three stages:
  *
- * The column is necessary to address by
- * sequential number. The first defined column has the colnum = 0. For example:
+ * #1 reduce columns with SCOLS_FL_TRUNC flag and with relative width if the
+ *    width is greater than width defined by @whint (@whint * terminal_width)
+ *
+ * #2 reduce all columns with SCOLS_FL_TRUNC flag
+ *
+ * #3 reduce all columns with relative width
+ *
+ * The next stage is always used if the previous stage is unsuccessful. Note
+ * that SCOLS_FL_WRAP is interpreted as SCOLS_FL_TRUNC when calculate column
+ * width (if custom wrap function is not specified), but the final text is not
+ * truncated, but wrapped to multi-line cell.
+ *
+ *
+ * The column is necessary to address by sequential number. The first defined
+ * column has the colnum = 0. For example:
  *
  *	scols_table_new_column(tab, "FOO", 0.5, 0);		// colnum = 0
  *	scols_table_new_column(tab, "BAR", 0.5, 0);		// colnum = 1
@@ -222,7 +369,6 @@ struct libscols_column *scols_table_new_column(struct libscols_table *tb,
 	struct libscols_column *cl;
 	struct libscols_cell *hr;
 
-	assert (tb);
 	if (!tb)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -282,29 +428,26 @@ int scols_table_next_column(struct libscols_table *tb,
 	return rc;
 }
 
-
 /**
  * scols_table_get_ncols:
  * @tb: table
  *
- * Returns: the ncols table member, a negative number in case of an error.
+ * Returns: the ncols table member.
  */
-int scols_table_get_ncols(struct libscols_table *tb)
+size_t scols_table_get_ncols(const struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	return tb ? tb->ncols : -EINVAL;
+	return tb->ncols;
 }
 
 /**
  * scols_table_get_nlines:
  * @tb: table
  *
- * Returns: the nlines table member, a negative number in case of an error.
+ * Returns: the nlines table member.
  */
-int scols_table_get_nlines(struct libscols_table *tb)
+size_t scols_table_get_nlines(const struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	return tb ? tb->nlines : -EINVAL;
+	return tb->nlines;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -335,10 +478,9 @@ int scols_table_set_stream(struct libscols_table *tb, FILE *stream)
  *
  * Returns: stream pointer, NULL in case of an error or an unset stream.
  */
-FILE *scols_table_get_stream(struct libscols_table *tb)
+FILE *scols_table_get_stream(const struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	return tb ? tb->out: NULL;
+	return tb->out;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -346,13 +488,20 @@ FILE *scols_table_get_stream(struct libscols_table *tb)
  * @tb: table
  * @reduce: width
  *
- * Reduce the output width to @reduce.
+ * If necessary then libsmartcols use all terminal width, the @reduce setting
+ * provides extra space (for example for borders in ncurses applications).
+ *
+ * The @reduce must be smaller than terminal width, otherwise it's silently
+ * ignored. The reduction is not applied when STDOUT_FILENO is not terminal.
+ *
+ * Note that after output initialization (scols_table_print_* calls) the width
+ * will be reduced, this behavior affects subsequenced scols_table_get_termwidth()
+ * calls.
  *
  * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
 int scols_table_reduce_termwidth(struct libscols_table *tb, size_t reduce)
 {
-	assert(tb);
 	if (!tb)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -374,7 +523,6 @@ struct libscols_column *scols_table_get_column(struct libscols_table *tb,
 	struct libscols_iter itr;
 	struct libscols_column *cl;
 
-	assert(tb);
 	if (!tb)
 		return NULL;
 	if (n >= tb->ncols)
@@ -400,11 +548,7 @@ struct libscols_column *scols_table_get_column(struct libscols_table *tb,
  */
 int scols_table_add_line(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_line *ln)
 {
-
-	assert(tb);
-	assert(ln);
-
-	if (!tb || !ln)
+	if (!tb || !ln || tb->ncols == 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (tb->ncols > ln->ncells) {
@@ -413,7 +557,7 @@ int scols_table_add_line(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_line *ln)
 			return rc;
 	}
 
-	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "add line %p", ln));
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "add line"));
 	list_add_tail(&ln->ln_lines, &tb->tb_lines);
 	ln->seqnum = tb->nlines++;
 	scols_ref_line(ln);
@@ -433,13 +577,10 @@ int scols_table_add_line(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_line *ln)
 int scols_table_remove_line(struct libscols_table *tb,
 			    struct libscols_line *ln)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	assert(ln);
-
 	if (!tb || !ln)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "remove line %p", ln));
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "remove line"));
 	list_del_init(&ln->ln_lines);
 	tb->nlines--;
 	scols_unref_line(ln);
@@ -454,7 +595,6 @@ int scols_table_remove_line(struct libscols_table *tb,
  */
 void scols_table_remove_lines(struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert(tb);
 	if (!tb)
 		return;
 
@@ -517,9 +657,6 @@ struct libscols_line *scols_table_new_line(struct libscols_table *tb,
 {
 	struct libscols_line *ln;
 
-	assert(tb);
-	assert(tb->ncols);
-
 	if (!tb || !tb->ncols)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -544,13 +681,7 @@ err:
  * @tb: table
  * @n: column number (0..N)
  *
- * This is a shortcut for
- *
- *   ln = scols_new_line();
- *   scols_line_set_....(cl, ...);
- *   scols_table_add_line(tb, ln);
- *
- * Returns: a newly allocate line
+ * Returns: a line or NULL
  */
 struct libscols_line *scols_table_get_line(struct libscols_table *tb,
 					   size_t n)
@@ -558,7 +689,6 @@ struct libscols_line *scols_table_get_line(struct libscols_table *tb,
 	struct libscols_iter itr;
 	struct libscols_line *ln;
 
-	assert(tb);
 	if (!tb)
 		return NULL;
 	if (n >= tb->nlines)
@@ -588,14 +718,13 @@ struct libscols_table *scols_copy_table(struct libscols_table *tb)
 	struct libscols_column *cl;
 	struct libscols_iter itr;
 
-	assert(tb);
 	if (!tb)
 		return NULL;
 	ret = scols_new_table();
 	if (!ret)
 		return NULL;
 
-	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "copy into %p", ret));
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "copy"));
 
 	if (tb->symbols)
 		scols_table_set_symbols(ret, tb->symbols);
@@ -639,54 +768,141 @@ err:
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+/**
+ * scols_table_set_default_symbols:
+ * @tb: table
+ *
+ * The library check the current environment to select ASCII or UTF8 symbols.
+ * This default behavior could be controlled by scols_table_enable_ascii().
+ *
+ * Use scols_table_set_symbols() to unset symbols or use your own setting.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+int scols_table_set_default_symbols(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	struct libscols_symbols *sy;
+	int rc;
+
+	if (!tb)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "setting default symbols"));
+
+	sy = scols_new_symbols();
+	if (!sy)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+#if defined(HAVE_WIDECHAR)
+	if (!scols_table_is_ascii(tb) &&
+	    !strcmp(nl_langinfo(CODESET), "UTF-8")) {
+		scols_symbols_set_branch(sy, UTF_VR UTF_H);
+		scols_symbols_set_vertical(sy, UTF_V " ");
+		scols_symbols_set_right(sy, UTF_UR UTF_H);
+	} else
+#endif
+	{
+		scols_symbols_set_branch(sy, "|-");
+		scols_symbols_set_vertical(sy, "| ");
+		scols_symbols_set_right(sy, "`-");
+	}
+	scols_symbols_set_title_padding(sy, " ");
+	scols_symbols_set_cell_padding(sy, " ");
+
+	rc = scols_table_set_symbols(tb, sy);
+	scols_unref_symbols(sy);
+	return rc;
+}
+
+
 /**
  * scols_table_set_symbols:
  * @tb: table
  * @sy: symbols or NULL
  *
  * Add a reference to @sy from the table. The symbols are used by library to
- * draw tree output. If no symbols are specified then library checks the
- * current environment to select ASCII or UTF8 symbols. This default behavior
- * could be controlled by scols_table_enable_ascii().
+ * draw tree output. If no symbols are used for the table then library creates
+ * default temporary symbols to draw output by scols_table_set_default_symbols().
+ *
+ * If @sy is NULL then remove reference from the currently used symbols.
  *
  * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
 int scols_table_set_symbols(struct libscols_table *tb,
 			    struct libscols_symbols *sy)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-
 	if (!tb)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "setting alternative symbols %p", sy));
-
-	if (tb->symbols)				/* unref old */
+	/* remove old */
+	if (tb->symbols) {
+		DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "remove symbols reference"));
 		scols_unref_symbols(tb->symbols);
+		tb->symbols = NULL;
+	}
+
+	/* set new */
 	if (sy) {					/* ref user defined */
+		DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "set symbols"));
 		tb->symbols = sy;
 		scols_ref_symbols(sy);
-	} else {					/* default symbols */
-		tb->symbols = scols_new_symbols();
-		if (!tb->symbols)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-#if defined(HAVE_WIDECHAR)
-		if (!scols_table_is_ascii(tb) &&
-		    !strcmp(nl_langinfo(CODESET), "UTF-8")) {
-			scols_symbols_set_branch(tb->symbols, UTF_VR UTF_H);
-			scols_symbols_set_vertical(tb->symbols, UTF_V " ");
-			scols_symbols_set_right(tb->symbols, UTF_UR UTF_H);
-		} else
-#endif
-		{
-			scols_symbols_set_branch(tb->symbols, "|-");
-			scols_symbols_set_vertical(tb->symbols, "| ");
-			scols_symbols_set_right(tb->symbols, "`-");
-		}
 	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_get_symbols:
+ * @tb: table
+ *
+ * Returns: pointer to symbols table.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+struct libscols_symbols *scols_table_get_symbols(const struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	return tb->symbols;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_enable_nolinesep:
+ * @tb: table
+ * @enable: 1 or 0
+ *
+ * Enable/disable line separator printing. This is useful if you want to
+ * re-printing the same line more than once (e.g. progress bar). Don't use it
+ * if you're not sure.
+ *
+ * Note that for the last line in the table the separator is disabled at all.
+ * The library differentiate between table terminator and line terminator
+ * (although for standard output \n byte is used in both cases).
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 on success, negative number in case of an error.
+ */
+int scols_table_enable_nolinesep(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
+{
+	if (!tb)
+		return -EINVAL;
 
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "nolinesep: %s", enable ? "ENABLE" : "DISABLE"));
+	tb->no_linesep = enable ? 1 : 0;
 	return 0;
 }
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_is_nolinesep:
+ * @tb: a pointer to a struct libscols_table instance
+ *
+ * Returns: 1 if line separator printing is disabled.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+int scols_table_is_nolinesep(const struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	return tb->no_linesep;
+}
+
 /**
  * scols_table_enable_colors:
  * @tb: table
@@ -698,7 +914,6 @@ int scols_table_set_symbols(struct libscols_table *tb,
  */
 int scols_table_enable_colors(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
 {
-	assert(tb);
 	if (!tb)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -706,19 +921,19 @@ int scols_table_enable_colors(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
 	tb->colors_wanted = enable;
 	return 0;
 }
+
 /**
  * scols_table_enable_raw:
  * @tb: table
  * @enable: 1 or 0
  *
  * Enable/disable raw output format. The parsable output formats
- * (export and raw) are mutually exclusive.
+ * (export, raw, JSON, ...) are mutually exclusive.
  *
  * Returns: 0 on success, negative number in case of an error.
  */
 int scols_table_enable_raw(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
 {
-	assert(tb);
 	if (!tb)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -730,6 +945,31 @@ int scols_table_enable_raw(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * scols_table_enable_json:
+ * @tb: table
+ * @enable: 1 or 0
+ *
+ * Enable/disable JSON output format. The parsable output formats
+ * (export, raw, JSON, ...) are mutually exclusive.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 on success, negative number in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.27
+ */
+int scols_table_enable_json(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
+{
+	if (!tb)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "json: %s", enable ? "ENABLE" : "DISABLE"));
+	if (enable)
+		tb->format = SCOLS_FMT_JSON;
+	else if (tb->format == SCOLS_FMT_JSON)
+		tb->format = 0;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /**
  * scols_table_enable_export:
  * @tb: table
@@ -742,7 +982,6 @@ int scols_table_enable_raw(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
  */
 int scols_table_enable_export(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
 {
-	assert(tb);
 	if (!tb)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -771,7 +1010,6 @@ int scols_table_enable_export(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
  */
 int scols_table_enable_ascii(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
 {
-	assert(tb);
 	if (!tb)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -791,7 +1029,6 @@ int scols_table_enable_ascii(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
  */
 int scols_table_enable_noheadings(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
 {
-	assert(tb);
 	if (!tb)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "noheading: %s", enable ? "ENABLE" : "DISABLE"));
@@ -799,6 +1036,28 @@ int scols_table_enable_noheadings(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * scols_table_enable_header_repeat:
+ * @tb: table
+ * @enable: 1 or 0
+ *
+ * Enable/disable header line repeat. The header line is printed only once by
+ * default.  Note that the flag will be silently ignored and disabled if the
+ * output is not on terminal or output format is JSON, raw, etc.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 on success, negative number in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.31
+ */
+int scols_table_enable_header_repeat(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
+{
+	if (!tb)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "header-repeat: %s", enable ? "ENABLE" : "DISABLE"));
+	tb->header_repeat = enable ? 1 : 0;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /**
  * scols_table_enable_maxout:
  * @tb: table
@@ -811,7 +1070,6 @@ int scols_table_enable_noheadings(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
  */
 int scols_table_enable_maxout(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
 {
-	assert(tb);
 	if (!tb)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "maxout: %s", enable ? "ENABLE" : "DISABLE"));
@@ -819,28 +1077,92 @@ int scols_table_enable_maxout(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * scols_table_enable_nowrap:
+ * @tb: table
+ * @enable: 1 or 0
+ *
+ * Never continue on next line, remove last column(s) when too large, truncate last column.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 on success, negative number in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.28
+ */
+int scols_table_enable_nowrap(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
+{
+	if (!tb)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "nowrap: %s", enable ? "ENABLE" : "DISABLE"));
+	tb->no_wrap = enable ? 1 : 0;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_is_nowrap:
+ * @tb: a pointer to a struct libscols_table instance
+ *
+ * Returns: 1 if nowrap is enabled.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+int scols_table_is_nowrap(const struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	return tb->no_wrap;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_enable_noencoding:
+ * @tb: table
+ * @enable: 1 or 0
+ *
+ * The library encode non-printable and control chars by \xHEX by default.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 on success, negative number in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.31
+ */
+int scols_table_enable_noencoding(struct libscols_table *tb, int enable)
+{
+	if (!tb)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "encoding: %s", enable ? "ENABLE" : "DISABLE"));
+	tb->no_encode = enable ? 1 : 0;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_is_noencoding:
+ * @tb: a pointer to a struct libscols_table instance
+ *
+ * Returns: 1 if encoding is disabled.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.31
+ */
+int scols_table_is_noencoding(const struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	return tb->no_encode;
+}
+
 /**
  * scols_table_colors_wanted:
  * @tb: table
  *
  * Returns: 1 if colors are enabled.
  */
-int scols_table_colors_wanted(struct libscols_table *tb)
+int scols_table_colors_wanted(const struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	return tb && tb->colors_wanted;
+	return tb->colors_wanted;
 }
 
 /**
  * scols_table_is_empty:
  * @tb: table
  *
- * Returns: 1  if the table is empty.
+ * Returns: 1 if the table is empty.
  */
-int scols_table_is_empty(struct libscols_table *tb)
+int scols_table_is_empty(const struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	return !tb || !tb->nlines;
+	return !tb->nlines;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -849,10 +1171,9 @@ int scols_table_is_empty(struct libscols_table *tb)
  *
  * Returns: 1 if ASCII tree is enabled.
  */
-int scols_table_is_ascii(struct libscols_table *tb)
+int scols_table_is_ascii(const struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	return tb && tb->ascii;
+	return tb->ascii;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -861,10 +1182,22 @@ int scols_table_is_ascii(struct libscols_table *tb)
  *
  * Returns: 1 if header output is disabled.
  */
-int scols_table_is_noheadings(struct libscols_table *tb)
+int scols_table_is_noheadings(const struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	return tb && tb->no_headings;
+	return tb->no_headings;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_is_header_repeat
+ * @tb: table
+ *
+ * Returns: 1 if header repeat is enabled.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.31
+ */
+int scols_table_is_header_repeat(const struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	return tb->header_repeat;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -873,10 +1206,9 @@ int scols_table_is_noheadings(struct libscols_table *tb)
  *
  * Returns: 1 if export output format is enabled.
  */
-int scols_table_is_export(struct libscols_table *tb)
+int scols_table_is_export(const struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	return tb && tb->format == SCOLS_FMT_EXPORT;
+	return tb->format == SCOLS_FMT_EXPORT;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -885,23 +1217,33 @@ int scols_table_is_export(struct libscols_table *tb)
  *
  * Returns: 1 if raw output format is enabled.
  */
-int scols_table_is_raw(struct libscols_table *tb)
+int scols_table_is_raw(const struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	return tb && tb->format == SCOLS_FMT_RAW;
+	return tb->format == SCOLS_FMT_RAW;
 }
 
+/**
+ * scols_table_is_json:
+ * @tb: table
+ *
+ * Returns: 1 if JSON output format is enabled.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.27
+ */
+int scols_table_is_json(const struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	return tb->format == SCOLS_FMT_JSON;
+}
 
 /**
  * scols_table_is_maxout
  * @tb: table
  *
- * Returns: 1 if output maximization is enabled, negative value in case of an error.
+ * Returns: 1 if output maximization is enabled or 0
  */
-int scols_table_is_maxout(struct libscols_table *tb)
+int scols_table_is_maxout(const struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	return tb && tb->maxout;
+	return tb->maxout;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -910,10 +1252,9 @@ int scols_table_is_maxout(struct libscols_table *tb)
  *
  * Returns: returns 1 tree-like output is expected.
  */
-int scols_table_is_tree(struct libscols_table *tb)
+int scols_table_is_tree(const struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	return tb && tb->ntreecols > 0;
+	return tb->ntreecols > 0;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -922,29 +1263,12 @@ int scols_table_is_tree(struct libscols_table *tb)
  * @sep: separator
  *
  * Sets the column separator of @tb to @sep.
- * Please note that @sep should always take up a single cell in the output.
  *
  * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
 int scols_table_set_column_separator(struct libscols_table *tb, const char *sep)
 {
-	char *p = NULL;
-
-	assert (tb);
-
-	if (!tb)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	if (sep) {
-		p = strdup(sep);
-		if (!p)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-
-	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "new columns separator: %s", sep));
-	free(tb->colsep);
-	tb->colsep = p;
-	return 0;
+	return strdup_to_struct_member(tb, colsep, sep);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -958,23 +1282,7 @@ int scols_table_set_column_separator(struct libscols_table *tb, const char *sep)
  */
 int scols_table_set_line_separator(struct libscols_table *tb, const char *sep)
 {
-	char *p = NULL;
-
-	assert (tb);
-
-	if (!tb)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	if (sep) {
-		p = strdup(sep);
-		if (!p)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-
-	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "new lines separator: %s", sep));
-	free(tb->linesep);
-	tb->linesep = p;
-	return 0;
+	return strdup_to_struct_member(tb, linesep, sep);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -983,12 +1291,8 @@ int scols_table_set_line_separator(struct libscols_table *tb, const char *sep)
  *
  * Returns: @tb column separator, NULL in case of an error
  */
-char *scols_table_get_column_separator(struct libscols_table *tb)
+const char *scols_table_get_column_separator(const struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert (tb);
-
-	if (!tb)
-		return NULL;
 	return tb->colsep;
 }
 
@@ -998,17 +1302,12 @@ char *scols_table_get_column_separator(struct libscols_table *tb)
  *
  * Returns: @tb line separator, NULL in case of an error
  */
-char *scols_table_get_line_separator(struct libscols_table *tb)
+const char *scols_table_get_line_separator(const struct libscols_table *tb)
 {
-	assert (tb);
-
-	if (!tb)
-		return NULL;
 	return tb->linesep;
-
 }
-
-static int cells_cmp_wrapper(struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b, void *data)
+/* for lines in the struct libscols_line->ln_lines list */
+static int cells_cmp_wrapper_lines(struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b, void *data)
 {
 	struct libscols_column *cl = (struct libscols_column *) data;
 	struct libscols_line *ra, *rb;
@@ -1026,24 +1325,218 @@ static int cells_cmp_wrapper(struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b, void *dat
 	return cl->cmpfunc(ca, cb, cl->cmpfunc_data);
 }
 
+/* for lines in the struct libscols_line->ln_children list */
+static int cells_cmp_wrapper_children(struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b, void *data)
+{
+	struct libscols_column *cl = (struct libscols_column *) data;
+	struct libscols_line *ra, *rb;
+	struct libscols_cell *ca, *cb;
+
+	assert(a);
+	assert(b);
+	assert(cl);
+
+	ra = list_entry(a, struct libscols_line, ln_children);
+	rb = list_entry(b, struct libscols_line, ln_children);
+	ca = scols_line_get_cell(ra, cl->seqnum);
+	cb = scols_line_get_cell(rb, cl->seqnum);
+
+	return cl->cmpfunc(ca, cb, cl->cmpfunc_data);
+}
+
+
+static int sort_line_children(struct libscols_line *ln, struct libscols_column *cl)
+{
+	struct list_head *p;
+
+	if (list_empty(&ln->ln_branch))
+		return 0;
+
+	list_for_each(p, &ln->ln_branch) {
+		struct libscols_line *chld =
+				list_entry(p, struct libscols_line, ln_children);
+		sort_line_children(chld, cl);
+	}
+
+	list_sort(&ln->ln_branch, cells_cmp_wrapper_children, cl);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /**
  * scols_sort_table:
  * @tb: table
  * @cl: order by this column
  *
- * Orders the table by the column. See also scols_column_set_cmpfunc().
+ * Orders the table by the column. See also scols_column_set_cmpfunc(). If the
+ * tree output is enabled then children in the tree are recursively sorted too.
  *
  * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
 int scols_sort_table(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_column *cl)
 {
-	assert(tb);
-	assert(cl);
-
-	if (!tb || !cl)
+	if (!tb || !cl || !cl->cmpfunc)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "sorting table"));
-	list_sort(&tb->tb_lines, cells_cmp_wrapper, cl);
+	list_sort(&tb->tb_lines, cells_cmp_wrapper_lines, cl);
+
+	if (scols_table_is_tree(tb)) {
+		struct libscols_line *ln;
+		struct libscols_iter itr;
+
+		scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+		while (scols_table_next_line(tb, &itr, &ln) == 0)
+			sort_line_children(ln, cl);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static struct libscols_line *move_line_and_children(struct libscols_line *ln, struct libscols_line *pre)
+{
+	if (pre) {
+		list_del_init(&ln->ln_lines);			/* remove from old position */
+	        list_add(&ln->ln_lines, &pre->ln_lines);        /* add to the new place (behind @pre) */
+	}
+	pre = ln;
+
+	if (!list_empty(&ln->ln_branch)) {
+		struct list_head *p;
+
+		list_for_each(p, &ln->ln_branch) {
+			struct libscols_line *chld =
+					list_entry(p, struct libscols_line, ln_children);
+			pre = move_line_and_children(chld, pre);
+		}
+	}
+
+	return pre;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_sort_table_by_tree:
+ * @tb: table
+ *
+ * Reorders lines in the table by parent->child relation. Note that order of
+ * the lines in the table is independent on the tree hierarchy.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.30
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ */
+int scols_sort_table_by_tree(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	struct libscols_line *ln;
+	struct libscols_iter itr;
+
+	if (!tb)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "sorting table by tree"));
+
+	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+	while (scols_table_next_line(tb, &itr, &ln) == 0) {
+		if (ln->parent)
+			continue;
+
+		move_line_and_children(ln, NULL);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_set_termforce:
+ * @tb: table
+ * @force: SCOLS_TERMFORCE_{NEVER,ALWAYS,AUTO}
+ *
+ * Forces library to use stdout as terminal, non-terminal or use automatic
+ * detection (default).
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+int scols_table_set_termforce(struct libscols_table *tb, int force)
+{
+	if (!tb)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	tb->termforce = force;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_get_termforce:
+ * @tb: table
+ *
+ * Returns: SCOLS_TERMFORCE_{NEVER,ALWAYS,AUTO} or a negative value in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+int scols_table_get_termforce(const struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	return tb->termforce;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_set_termwidth
+ * @tb: table
+ * @width: terminal width
+ *
+ * The library automatically detects terminal width or defaults to 80 chars if
+ * detections is unsuccessful. This function override this behaviour.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.29
+ */
+int scols_table_set_termwidth(struct libscols_table *tb, size_t width)
+{
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "set terminatl width: %zu", width));
+	tb->termwidth = width;
 	return 0;
 }
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_get_termwidth
+ * @tb: table
+ *
+ * Returns: terminal width.
+ */
+size_t scols_table_get_termwidth(const struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	return tb->termwidth;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_set_termheight
+ * @tb: table
+ * @height: terminal height (number of lines)
+ *
+ * The library automatically detects terminal height or defaults to 24 lines if
+ * detections is unsuccessful. This function override this behaviour.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.31
+ */
+int scols_table_set_termheight(struct libscols_table *tb, size_t height)
+{
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "set terminatl height: %zu", height));
+	tb->termheight = height;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_get_termheight
+ * @tb: table
+ *
+ * Returns: terminal height (number of lines).
+ *
+ * Since: 2.31
+ */
+size_t scols_table_get_termheight(const struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	return tb->termheight;
+}
diff --git a/libsmartcols/src/table_print.c b/libsmartcols/src/table_print.c
index c9f3d8f4b..10126fd79 100644
--- a/libsmartcols/src/table_print.c
+++ b/libsmartcols/src/table_print.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  * table.c - functions handling the data at the table level
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 Igor Gnatenko <i.gnatenko.brain@gmail.com>
  *
  * This file may be redistributed under the terms of the
  * GNU Lesser General Public License.
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@
 /**
  * SECTION: table_print
  * @title: Table print
- * @short_description: table print API
+ * @short_description: output functions
  *
  * Table output API.
  */
@@ -21,13 +22,30 @@
 #include <termios.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
 
-#include "nls.h"
 #include "mbsalign.h"
-#include "widechar.h"
-#include "ttyutils.h"
 #include "carefulputc.h"
 #include "smartcolsP.h"
 
+#define colsep(tb)	((tb)->colsep ? (tb)->colsep : " ")
+#define linesep(tb)	((tb)->linesep ? (tb)->linesep : "\n")
+
+/* Fallback for symbols
+ *
+ * Note that by default library define all the symbols, but in case user does
+ * not define all symbols or if we extended the symbols struct then we need
+ * fallback to be more robust and backwardly compatible.
+ */
+#define titlepadding_symbol(tb)	((tb)->symbols->title_padding ? (tb)->symbols->title_padding : " ")
+#define branch_symbol(tb)	((tb)->symbols->branch ? (tb)->symbols->branch : "|-")
+#define vertical_symbol(tb)	((tb)->symbols->vert ? (tb)->symbols->vert : "| ")
+#define right_symbol(tb)	((tb)->symbols->right ? (tb)->symbols->right : "`-")
+
+#define cellpadding_symbol(tb)  ((tb)->padding_debug ? "." : \
+				 ((tb)->symbols->cell_padding ? (tb)->symbols->cell_padding: " "))
+
+#define want_repeat_header(tb)	(!(tb)->header_repeat || (tb)->header_next <= (tb)->termlines_used)
+
+
 /* This is private struct to work with output data */
 struct libscols_buffer {
 	char	*begin;		/* begin of the buffer */
@@ -88,7 +106,6 @@ static int buffer_append_data(struct libscols_buffer *buf, const char *str)
 
 	if (maxsz <= sz)
 		return -EINVAL;
-
 	memcpy(buf->cur, str, sz + 1);
 	buf->cur += sz;
 	return 0;
@@ -100,7 +117,7 @@ static int buffer_set_data(struct libscols_buffer *buf, const char *str)
 	return rc ? rc : buffer_append_data(buf, str);
 }
 
-/* save the current buffer possition to art_idx */
+/* save the current buffer position to art_idx */
 static void buffer_set_art_index(struct libscols_buffer *buf)
 {
 	if (buf) {
@@ -115,7 +132,10 @@ static char *buffer_get_data(struct libscols_buffer *buf)
 }
 
 /* encode data by mbs_safe_encode() to avoid control and non-printable chars */
-static char *buffer_get_safe_data(struct libscols_buffer *buf, size_t *cells)
+static char *buffer_get_safe_data(struct libscols_table *tb,
+				  struct libscols_buffer *buf,
+				  size_t *cells,
+				  const char *safechars)
 {
 	char *data = buffer_get_data(buf);
 	char *res = NULL;
@@ -129,7 +149,14 @@ static char *buffer_get_safe_data(struct libscols_buffer *buf, size_t *cells)
 			goto nothing;
 	}
 
-	res = mbs_safe_encode_to_buffer(data, cells, buf->encdata);
+	if (tb->no_encode) {
+		*cells = mbs_safe_width(data);
+		strcpy(buf->encdata, data);
+		res = buf->encdata;
+	} else {
+		res = mbs_safe_encode_to_buffer(data, cells, buf->encdata, safechars);
+	}
+
 	if (!res || !*cells || *cells == (size_t) -1)
 		goto nothing;
 	return res;
@@ -151,11 +178,257 @@ static size_t buffer_get_safe_art_size(struct libscols_buffer *buf)
 	return bytes;
 }
 
-#define is_last_column(_tb, _cl) \
-		list_entry_is_last(&(_cl)->cl_columns, &(_tb)->tb_columns)
+/* returns pointer to the end of used data */
+static int line_ascii_art_to_buffer(struct libscols_table *tb,
+				    struct libscols_line *ln,
+				    struct libscols_buffer *buf)
+{
+	const char *art;
+	int rc;
+
+	assert(ln);
+	assert(buf);
 
-#define colsep(tb) ((tb)->colsep ? (tb)->colsep : " ")
-#define linesep(tb) ((tb)->linesep ? (tb)->linesep : "\n")
+	if (!ln->parent)
+		return 0;
+
+	rc = line_ascii_art_to_buffer(tb, ln->parent, buf);
+	if (rc)
+		return rc;
+
+	if (list_entry_is_last(&ln->ln_children, &ln->parent->ln_branch))
+		art = "  ";
+	else
+		art = vertical_symbol(tb);
+
+	return buffer_append_data(buf, art);
+}
+
+static int is_last_column(struct libscols_column *cl)
+{
+	int rc = list_entry_is_last(&cl->cl_columns, &cl->table->tb_columns);
+	struct libscols_column *next;
+
+	if (rc)
+		return 1;
+
+	next = list_entry(cl->cl_columns.next, struct libscols_column, cl_columns);
+	if (next && scols_column_is_hidden(next) && is_last_column(next))
+		return 1;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+
+static int has_pending_data(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	struct libscols_column *cl;
+	struct libscols_iter itr;
+
+	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+	while (scols_table_next_column(tb, &itr, &cl) == 0) {
+		if (scols_column_is_hidden(cl))
+			continue;
+		if (cl->pending_data)
+			return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/* print padding or ASCII-art instead of data of @cl */
+static void print_empty_cell(struct libscols_table *tb,
+			  struct libscols_column *cl,
+			  struct libscols_line *ln,	/* optional */
+			  size_t bufsz)
+{
+	size_t len_pad = 0;		/* in screen cells as opposed to bytes */
+
+	/* generate tree ASCII-art rather than padding */
+	if (ln && scols_column_is_tree(cl)) {
+		if (!ln->parent) {
+			/* only print symbols->vert if followed by child */
+			if (!list_empty(&ln->ln_branch)) {
+				fputs(vertical_symbol(tb), tb->out);
+				len_pad = mbs_safe_width(vertical_symbol(tb));
+			}
+		} else {
+			/* use the same draw function as though we were intending to draw an L-shape */
+			struct libscols_buffer *art = new_buffer(bufsz);
+			char *data;
+
+			if (art) {
+				/* whatever the rc, len_pad will be sensible */
+				line_ascii_art_to_buffer(tb, ln, art);
+				if (!list_empty(&ln->ln_branch) && has_pending_data(tb))
+					buffer_append_data(art, vertical_symbol(tb));
+				data = buffer_get_safe_data(tb, art, &len_pad, NULL);
+				if (data && len_pad)
+					fputs(data, tb->out);
+				free_buffer(art);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (is_last_column(cl))
+		return;
+
+	/* fill rest of cell with space */
+	for(; len_pad < cl->width; ++len_pad)
+		fputs(cellpadding_symbol(tb), tb->out);
+
+	fputs(colsep(tb), tb->out);
+}
+
+
+static const char *get_cell_color(struct libscols_table *tb,
+				  struct libscols_column *cl,
+				  struct libscols_line *ln,	/* optional */
+				  struct libscols_cell *ce)	/* optional */
+{
+	const char *color = NULL;
+
+	if (tb && tb->colors_wanted) {
+		if (ce)
+			color = ce->color;
+		if (ln && !color)
+			color = ln->color;
+		if (!color)
+			color = cl->color;
+	}
+	return color;
+}
+
+/* Fill the start of a line with padding (or with tree ascii-art).
+ *
+ * This is necessary after a long non-truncated column, as this requires the
+ * next column to be printed on the next line. For example (see 'DDD'):
+ *
+ * aaa bbb ccc ddd eee
+ * AAA BBB CCCCCCC
+ *             DDD EEE
+ * ^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ *  new line padding
+ */
+static void print_newline_padding(struct libscols_table *tb,
+				  struct libscols_column *cl,
+				  struct libscols_line *ln,	/* optional */
+				  size_t bufsz)
+{
+	size_t i;
+
+	assert(tb);
+	assert(cl);
+
+	fputs(linesep(tb), tb->out);		/* line break */
+	tb->termlines_used++;
+
+	/* fill cells after line break */
+	for (i = 0; i <= (size_t) cl->seqnum; i++)
+		print_empty_cell(tb, scols_table_get_column(tb, i), ln, bufsz);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Pending data
+ *
+ * The first line in the multi-line cells (columns with SCOLS_FL_WRAP flag) is
+ * printed as usually and output is truncated to match column width.
+ *
+ * The rest of the long text is printed on next extra line(s). The extra lines
+ * don't exist in the table (not represented by libscols_line). The data for
+ * the extra lines are stored in libscols_column->pending_data_buf and the
+ * function print_line() adds extra lines until the buffer is not empty in all
+ * columns.
+ */
+
+/* set data that will be printed by extra lines */
+static int set_pending_data(struct libscols_column *cl, const char *data, size_t sz)
+{
+	char *p = NULL;
+
+	if (data && *data) {
+		DBG(COL, ul_debugobj(cl, "setting pending data"));
+		assert(sz);
+		p = strdup(data);
+		if (!p)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
+	free(cl->pending_data_buf);
+	cl->pending_data_buf = p;
+	cl->pending_data_sz = sz;
+	cl->pending_data = cl->pending_data_buf;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/* the next extra line has been printed, move pending data cursor */
+static int step_pending_data(struct libscols_column *cl, size_t bytes)
+{
+	DBG(COL, ul_debugobj(cl, "step pending data %zu -= %zu", cl->pending_data_sz, bytes));
+
+	if (bytes >= cl->pending_data_sz)
+		return set_pending_data(cl, NULL, 0);
+
+	cl->pending_data += bytes;
+	cl->pending_data_sz -= bytes;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/* print next pending data for the column @cl */
+static int print_pending_data(
+		struct libscols_table *tb,
+		struct libscols_column *cl,
+		struct libscols_line *ln,	/* optional */
+		struct libscols_cell *ce)
+{
+	const char *color = get_cell_color(tb, cl, ln, ce);
+	size_t width = cl->width, bytes;
+	size_t len = width, i;
+	char *data;
+	char *nextchunk = NULL;
+
+	if (!cl->pending_data)
+		return 0;
+	if (!width)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	DBG(COL, ul_debugobj(cl, "printing pending data"));
+
+	data = strdup(cl->pending_data);
+	if (!data)
+		goto err;
+
+	if (scols_column_is_customwrap(cl)
+	    && (nextchunk = cl->wrap_nextchunk(cl, data, cl->wrapfunc_data))) {
+		bytes = nextchunk - data;
+
+		len = mbs_safe_nwidth(data, bytes, NULL);
+	} else
+		bytes = mbs_truncate(data, &len);
+
+	if (bytes == (size_t) -1)
+		goto err;
+
+	if (bytes)
+		step_pending_data(cl, bytes);
+
+	if (color)
+		fputs(color, tb->out);
+	fputs(data, tb->out);
+	if (color)
+		fputs(UL_COLOR_RESET, tb->out);
+	free(data);
+
+	if (is_last_column(cl))
+		return 0;
+
+	for (i = len; i < width; i++)
+		fputs(cellpadding_symbol(tb), tb->out);		/* padding */
+
+	fputs(colsep(tb), tb->out);	/* columns separator */
+	return 0;
+err:
+	free(data);
+	return -errno;
+}
 
 static int print_data(struct libscols_table *tb,
 		      struct libscols_column *cl,
@@ -165,76 +438,120 @@ static int print_data(struct libscols_table *tb,
 {
 	size_t len = 0, i, width, bytes;
 	const char *color = NULL;
-	char *data;
+	char *data, *nextchunk;
+	int is_last;
 
 	assert(tb);
 	assert(cl);
 
-	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb,
-			" -> data, column=%p, line=%p, cell=%p, buff=%p",
-			cl, ln, ce, buf));
-
 	data = buffer_get_data(buf);
 	if (!data)
 		data = "";
 
-	/* raw mode */
-	if (scols_table_is_raw(tb)) {
+	is_last = is_last_column(cl);
+
+	switch (tb->format) {
+	case SCOLS_FMT_RAW:
 		fputs_nonblank(data, tb->out);
-		if (!is_last_column(tb, cl))
+		if (!is_last)
 			fputs(colsep(tb), tb->out);
 		return 0;
-	}
 
-	/* NAME=value mode */
-	if (scols_table_is_export(tb)) {
+	case SCOLS_FMT_EXPORT:
 		fprintf(tb->out, "%s=", scols_cell_get_data(&cl->header));
 		fputs_quoted(data, tb->out);
-		if (!is_last_column(tb, cl))
+		if (!is_last)
 			fputs(colsep(tb), tb->out);
 		return 0;
-	}
 
-	if (tb->colors_wanted) {
-		if (ce && !color)
-			color = ce->color;
-		if (ln && !color)
-			color = ln->color;
-		if (!color)
-			color = cl->color;
+	case SCOLS_FMT_JSON:
+		fputs_quoted_json_lower(scols_cell_get_data(&cl->header), tb->out);
+		fputs(":", tb->out);
+		switch (cl->json_type) {
+			case SCOLS_JSON_STRING:
+				if (!*data)
+					fputs("null", tb->out);
+				else
+					fputs_quoted_json(data, tb->out);
+				break;
+			case SCOLS_JSON_NUMBER:
+				if (!*data)
+					fputs("null", tb->out);
+				else
+					fputs(data, tb->out);
+				break;
+			case SCOLS_JSON_BOOLEAN:
+				fputs(!*data ? "false" :
+				      *data == '0' ? "false" :
+				      *data == 'N' || *data == 'n' ? "false" : "true",
+				      tb->out);
+				break;
+		}
+		if (!is_last)
+			fputs(", ", tb->out);
+		return 0;
+
+	case SCOLS_FMT_HUMAN:
+		break;		/* continue below */
 	}
 
-	/* encode, note that 'len' and 'width' are number of cells, not bytes */
-	data = buffer_get_safe_data(buf, &len);
+	color = get_cell_color(tb, cl, ln, ce);
+
+	/* Encode. Note that 'len' and 'width' are number of cells, not bytes.
+	 */
+	data = buffer_get_safe_data(tb, buf, &len, scols_column_get_safechars(cl));
 	if (!data)
 		data = "";
-	width = cl->width;
 	bytes = strlen(data);
+	width = cl->width;
+
+	/* custom multi-line cell based */
+	if (*data && scols_column_is_customwrap(cl)
+	    && (nextchunk = cl->wrap_nextchunk(cl, data, cl->wrapfunc_data))) {
+		set_pending_data(cl, nextchunk, bytes - (nextchunk - data));
+		bytes = nextchunk - data;
+		len = mbs_safe_nwidth(data, bytes, NULL);
+	}
 
-	if (is_last_column(tb, cl) && len < width && !scols_table_is_maxout(tb))
+	if (is_last
+	    && len < width
+	    && !scols_table_is_maxout(tb)
+	    && !scols_column_is_right(cl))
 		width = len;
 
 	/* truncate data */
 	if (len > width && scols_column_is_trunc(cl)) {
 		len = width;
 		bytes = mbs_truncate(data, &len);	/* updates 'len' */
+	}
 
-		if (!data || bytes == (size_t) -1) {
-			bytes = len = 0;
-			data = NULL;
-		}
+	/* standard multi-line cell */
+	if (len > width && scols_column_is_wrap(cl)
+	    && !scols_column_is_customwrap(cl)) {
+		set_pending_data(cl, data, bytes);
+
+		len = width;
+		bytes = mbs_truncate(data, &len);
+		if (bytes  != (size_t) -1 && bytes > 0)
+			step_pending_data(cl, bytes);
+	}
+
+	if (bytes == (size_t) -1) {
+		bytes = len = 0;
+		data = NULL;
 	}
 
 	if (data) {
 		if (scols_column_is_right(cl)) {
-			size_t xw = cl->width;
 			if (color)
 				fputs(color, tb->out);
-			fprintf(tb->out, "%*s", (int) xw, data);
+			for (i = len; i < width; i++)
+				fputs(cellpadding_symbol(tb), tb->out);
+			fputs(data, tb->out);
 			if (color)
 				fputs(UL_COLOR_RESET, tb->out);
-			if (len < xw)
-				len = xw;
+			len = width;
+
 		} else if (color) {
 			char *p = data;
 			size_t art = buffer_get_safe_art_size(buf);
@@ -252,46 +569,17 @@ static int print_data(struct libscols_table *tb,
 			fputs(data, tb->out);
 	}
 	for (i = len; i < width; i++)
-		fputs(" ", tb->out);		/* padding */
-
-	if (!is_last_column(tb, cl)) {
-		if (len > width && !scols_column_is_trunc(cl)) {
-			fputs(linesep(tb), tb->out);
-			for (i = 0; i <= (size_t) cl->seqnum; i++) {
-				struct libscols_column *x = scols_table_get_column(tb, i);
-				fprintf(tb->out, "%*s ", -((int)x->width), " ");
-			}
-		} else
-			fputs(colsep(tb), tb->out);	/* columns separator */
-	}
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
-/* returns pointer to the end of used data */
-static int line_ascii_art_to_buffer(struct libscols_table *tb,
-				    struct libscols_line *ln,
-				    struct libscols_buffer *buf)
-{
-	const char *art;
-	int rc;
+		fputs(cellpadding_symbol(tb), tb->out);	/* padding */
 
-	assert(ln);
-	assert(buf);
-
-	if (!ln->parent)
+	if (is_last)
 		return 0;
 
-	rc = line_ascii_art_to_buffer(tb, ln->parent, buf);
-	if (rc)
-		return rc;
-
-	if (list_entry_is_last(&ln->ln_children, &ln->parent->ln_branch))
-		art = "  ";
+	if (len > width && !scols_column_is_trunc(cl))
+		print_newline_padding(tb, cl, ln, buf->bufsz);	/* next column starts on next line */
 	else
-		art = tb->symbols->vert;
+		fputs(colsep(tb), tb->out);		/* columns separator */
 
-	return buffer_append_data(buf, art);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int cell_to_buffer(struct libscols_table *tb,
@@ -322,13 +610,13 @@ static int cell_to_buffer(struct libscols_table *tb,
 	/*
 	 * Tree stuff
 	 */
-	if (ln->parent) {
+	if (ln->parent && !scols_table_is_json(tb)) {
 		rc = line_ascii_art_to_buffer(tb, ln->parent, buf);
 
 		if (!rc && list_entry_is_last(&ln->ln_children, &ln->parent->ln_branch))
-			rc = buffer_append_data(buf, tb->symbols->right);
+			rc = buffer_append_data(buf, right_symbol(tb));
 		else if (!rc)
-			rc = buffer_append_data(buf, tb->symbols->branch);
+			rc = buffer_append_data(buf, branch_symbol(tb));
 		if (!rc)
 			buffer_set_art_index(buf);
 	}
@@ -338,34 +626,252 @@ static int cell_to_buffer(struct libscols_table *tb,
 	return rc;
 }
 
+static void fput_indent(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i <= tb->indent; i++)
+		fputs("   ", tb->out);
+}
+
+static void fput_table_open(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	tb->indent = 0;
+
+	if (scols_table_is_json(tb)) {
+		fputc('{', tb->out);
+		fputs(linesep(tb), tb->out);
+
+		fput_indent(tb);
+		fputs_quoted(tb->name, tb->out);
+		fputs(": [", tb->out);
+		fputs(linesep(tb), tb->out);
+
+		tb->indent++;
+		tb->indent_last_sep = 1;
+	}
+}
+
+static void fput_table_close(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	tb->indent--;
+
+	if (scols_table_is_json(tb)) {
+		fput_indent(tb);
+		fputc(']', tb->out);
+		tb->indent--;
+		fputs(linesep(tb), tb->out);
+		fputc('}', tb->out);
+		tb->indent_last_sep = 1;
+	}
+}
+
+static void fput_children_open(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	if (scols_table_is_json(tb)) {
+		fputc(',', tb->out);
+		fputs(linesep(tb), tb->out);
+		fput_indent(tb);
+		fputs("\"children\": [", tb->out);
+	}
+	/* between parent and child is separator */
+	fputs(linesep(tb), tb->out);
+	tb->indent_last_sep = 1;
+	tb->indent++;
+	tb->termlines_used++;
+}
+
+static void fput_children_close(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	tb->indent--;
+
+	if (scols_table_is_json(tb)) {
+		fput_indent(tb);
+		fputc(']', tb->out);
+		fputs(linesep(tb), tb->out);
+		tb->indent_last_sep = 1;
+	}
+}
+
+static void fput_line_open(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	if (scols_table_is_json(tb)) {
+		fput_indent(tb);
+		fputc('{', tb->out);
+		tb->indent_last_sep = 0;
+	}
+	tb->indent++;
+}
+
+static void fput_line_close(struct libscols_table *tb, int last, int last_in_table)
+{
+	tb->indent--;
+	if (scols_table_is_json(tb)) {
+		if (tb->indent_last_sep)
+			fput_indent(tb);
+		fputs(last ? "}" : "},", tb->out);
+		if (!tb->no_linesep)
+			fputs(linesep(tb), tb->out);
+
+	} else if (tb->no_linesep == 0 && last_in_table == 0) {
+		fputs(linesep(tb), tb->out);
+		tb->termlines_used++;
+	}
+
+	tb->indent_last_sep = 1;
+}
+
 /*
- * Prints data, data maybe be printed in more formats (raw, NAME=xxx pairs) and
- * control and non-printable chars maybe encoded in \x?? hex encoding.
+ * Prints data. Data can be printed in more formats (raw, NAME=xxx pairs), and
+ * control and non-printable characters can be encoded in the \x?? encoding.
  */
 static int print_line(struct libscols_table *tb,
 		      struct libscols_line *ln,
 		      struct libscols_buffer *buf)
 {
-	int rc = 0;
+	int rc = 0, pending = 0;
 	struct libscols_column *cl;
 	struct libscols_iter itr;
 
 	assert(ln);
 
-	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "printing line, line=%p, buff=%p", ln, buf));
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "printing line"));
 
+	/* regular line */
 	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
 	while (rc == 0 && scols_table_next_column(tb, &itr, &cl) == 0) {
+		if (scols_column_is_hidden(cl))
+			continue;
 		rc = cell_to_buffer(tb, ln, cl, buf);
-		if (!rc)
+		if (rc == 0)
 			rc = print_data(tb, cl, ln,
 					scols_line_get_cell(ln, cl->seqnum),
 					buf);
+		if (rc == 0 && cl->pending_data)
+			pending = 1;
+	}
+
+	/* extra lines of the multi-line cells */
+	while (rc == 0 && pending) {
+		pending = 0;
+		fputs(linesep(tb), tb->out);
+		tb->termlines_used++;
+		scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+		while (rc == 0 && scols_table_next_column(tb, &itr, &cl) == 0) {
+			if (scols_column_is_hidden(cl))
+				continue;
+			if (cl->pending_data) {
+				rc = print_pending_data(tb, cl, ln, scols_line_get_cell(ln, cl->seqnum));
+				if (rc == 0 && cl->pending_data)
+					pending = 1;
+			} else
+				print_empty_cell(tb, cl, ln, buf->bufsz);
+		}
 	}
 
-	if (rc == 0)
-		fputs(linesep(tb), tb->out);
-	return 0;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int print_title(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	int rc, color = 0;
+	mbs_align_t align;
+	size_t width, len = 0, bufsz, titlesz;
+	char *title = NULL, *buf = NULL;
+
+	assert(tb);
+
+	if (!tb->title.data)
+		return 0;
+
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "printing title"));
+
+	/* encode data */
+	if (tb->no_encode) {
+		len = bufsz = strlen(tb->title.data) + 1;
+		buf = strdup(tb->title.data);
+		if (!buf) {
+			rc = -ENOMEM;
+			goto done;
+		}
+	} else {
+		bufsz = mbs_safe_encode_size(strlen(tb->title.data)) + 1;
+		if (bufsz == 1) {
+			DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "title is empty string -- ignore"));
+			return 0;
+		}
+		buf = malloc(bufsz);
+		if (!buf) {
+			rc = -ENOMEM;
+			goto done;
+		}
+
+		if (!mbs_safe_encode_to_buffer(tb->title.data, &len, buf, NULL) ||
+		    !len || len == (size_t) -1) {
+			rc = -EINVAL;
+			goto done;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/* truncate and align */
+	width = tb->is_term ? tb->termwidth : 80;
+	titlesz = width + bufsz;
+
+	title = malloc(titlesz);
+	if (!title) {
+		rc = -EINVAL;
+		goto done;
+	}
+
+	switch (scols_cell_get_alignment(&tb->title)) {
+	case SCOLS_CELL_FL_RIGHT:
+		align = MBS_ALIGN_RIGHT;
+		break;
+	case SCOLS_CELL_FL_CENTER:
+		align = MBS_ALIGN_CENTER;
+		break;
+	case SCOLS_CELL_FL_LEFT:
+	default:
+		align = MBS_ALIGN_LEFT;
+		/*
+		 * Don't print extra blank chars after the title if on left
+		 * (that's same as we use for the last column in the table).
+		 */
+		if (len < width
+		    && !scols_table_is_maxout(tb)
+		    && isblank(*titlepadding_symbol(tb)))
+			width = len;
+		break;
+
+	}
+
+	/* copy from buf to title and align to width with title_padding */
+	rc = mbsalign_with_padding(buf, title, titlesz,
+			&width, align,
+			0, (int) *titlepadding_symbol(tb));
+
+	if (rc == -1) {
+		rc = -EINVAL;
+		goto done;
+	}
+
+	if (tb->colors_wanted && tb->title.color)
+		color = 1;
+	if (color)
+		fputs(tb->title.color, tb->out);
+
+	fputs(title, tb->out);
+
+	if (color)
+		fputs(UL_COLOR_RESET, tb->out);
+
+	fputc('\n', tb->out);
+	rc = 0;
+done:
+	free(buf);
+	free(title);
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "printing title done [rc=%d]", rc));
+	return rc;
 }
 
 static int print_header(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_buffer *buf)
@@ -376,86 +882,139 @@ static int print_header(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_buffer *buf)
 
 	assert(tb);
 
-	if (scols_table_is_noheadings(tb) ||
+	if ((tb->header_printed == 1 && tb->header_repeat == 0) ||
+	    scols_table_is_noheadings(tb) ||
 	    scols_table_is_export(tb) ||
+	    scols_table_is_json(tb) ||
 	    list_empty(&tb->tb_lines))
 		return 0;
 
 	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "printing header"));
 
-	/* set width according to the size of data
-	 */
+	/* set the width according to the size of the data */
 	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
 	while (rc == 0 && scols_table_next_column(tb, &itr, &cl) == 0) {
+		if (scols_column_is_hidden(cl))
+			continue;
 		rc = buffer_set_data(buf, scols_cell_get_data(&cl->header));
 		if (!rc)
 			rc = print_data(tb, cl, NULL, &cl->header, buf);
 	}
 
-	if (rc == 0)
+	if (rc == 0) {
 		fputs(linesep(tb), tb->out);
+		tb->termlines_used++;
+	}
+
+	tb->header_printed = 1;
+	tb->header_next = tb->termlines_used + tb->termheight;
+	if (tb->header_repeat)
+		DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "\tnext header: %zu [current=%zu]",
+					tb->header_next, tb->termlines_used));
 	return rc;
 }
 
-static int print_table(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_buffer *buf)
+
+static int print_range(	struct libscols_table *tb,
+			struct libscols_buffer *buf,
+			struct libscols_iter *itr,
+			struct libscols_line *end)
 {
-	int rc;
+	int rc = 0;
 	struct libscols_line *ln;
-	struct libscols_iter itr;
 
 	assert(tb);
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "printing range"));
 
-	rc = print_header(tb, buf);
+	while (rc == 0 && scols_table_next_line(tb, itr, &ln) == 0) {
 
-	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
-	while (rc == 0 && scols_table_next_line(tb, &itr, &ln) == 0)
+		int last = scols_iter_is_last(itr);
+
+		fput_line_open(tb);
 		rc = print_line(tb, ln, buf);
+		fput_line_close(tb, last, last);
+
+		if (end && ln == end)
+			break;
+
+		if (!last && want_repeat_header(tb))
+			print_header(tb, buf);
+	}
 
 	return rc;
+
+}
+
+static int print_table(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_buffer *buf)
+{
+	struct libscols_iter itr;
+
+	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+	return print_range(tb, buf, &itr, NULL);
 }
 
+
 static int print_tree_line(struct libscols_table *tb,
 			   struct libscols_line *ln,
-			   struct libscols_buffer *buf)
+			   struct libscols_buffer *buf,
+			   int last,
+			   int last_in_table)
 {
 	int rc;
-	struct list_head *p;
 
+	/* print the line */
+	fput_line_open(tb);
 	rc = print_line(tb, ln, buf);
 	if (rc)
-		return rc;
-	if (list_empty(&ln->ln_branch))
-		return 0;
+		goto done;
 
-	/* print all children */
-	list_for_each(p, &ln->ln_branch) {
-		struct libscols_line *chld =
-				list_entry(p, struct libscols_line, ln_children);
-		rc = print_tree_line(tb, chld, buf);
-		if (rc)
-			break;
+	/* print children */
+	if (!list_empty(&ln->ln_branch)) {
+		struct list_head *p;
+
+		fput_children_open(tb);
+
+		/* print all children */
+		list_for_each(p, &ln->ln_branch) {
+			struct libscols_line *chld =
+					list_entry(p, struct libscols_line, ln_children);
+			int last_child = p->next == &ln->ln_branch;
+
+			rc = print_tree_line(tb, chld, buf, last_child, last_in_table && last_child);
+			if (rc)
+				goto done;
+		}
+
+		fput_children_close(tb);
 	}
 
+	if (list_empty(&ln->ln_branch) || scols_table_is_json(tb))
+		fput_line_close(tb, last, last_in_table);
+done:
 	return rc;
 }
 
 static int print_tree(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_buffer *buf)
 {
-	int rc;
-	struct libscols_line *ln;
+	int rc = 0;
+	struct libscols_line *ln, *last = NULL;
 	struct libscols_iter itr;
 
 	assert(tb);
 
 	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "printing tree"));
 
-	rc = print_header(tb, buf);
+	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+
+	while (scols_table_next_line(tb, &itr, &ln) == 0)
+		if (!last || !ln->parent)
+			last = ln;
 
 	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
 	while (rc == 0 && scols_table_next_line(tb, &itr, &ln) == 0) {
 		if (ln->parent)
 			continue;
-		rc = print_tree_line(tb, ln, buf);
+		rc = print_tree_line(tb, ln, buf, ln == last, ln == last);
 	}
 
 	return rc;
@@ -463,9 +1022,14 @@ static int print_tree(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_buffer *buf)
 
 static void dbg_column(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_column *cl)
 {
+	if (scols_column_is_hidden(cl)) {
+		DBG(COL, ul_debugobj(cl, "%s (hidden) ignored", cl->header.data));
+		return;
+	}
+
 	DBG(COL, ul_debugobj(cl, "%15s seq=%zu, width=%zd, "
 				 "hint=%d, avg=%zu, max=%zu, min=%zu, "
-				 "extreme=%s",
+				 "extreme=%s %s",
 
 		cl->header.data, cl->seqnum, cl->width,
 		cl->width_hint > 1 ? (int) cl->width_hint :
@@ -473,7 +1037,8 @@ static void dbg_column(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_column *cl)
 		cl->width_avg,
 		cl->width_max,
 		cl->width_min,
-		cl->is_extreme ? "yes" : "not"));
+		cl->is_extreme ? "yes" : "not",
+		cl->flags & SCOLS_FL_TRUNC ? "trunc" : ""));
 }
 
 static void dbg_columns(struct libscols_table *tb)
@@ -486,14 +1051,15 @@ static void dbg_columns(struct libscols_table *tb)
 		dbg_column(tb, cl);
 }
 
+
 /*
  * This function counts column width.
  *
- * For the SCOLS_FL_NOEXTREMES columns is possible to call this function two
- * times.  The first pass counts width and average width. If the column
- * contains too large fields (width greater than 2 * average) then the column
- * is marked as "extreme". In the second pass all extreme fields are ignored
- * and column width is counted from non-extreme fields only.
+ * For the SCOLS_FL_NOEXTREMES columns it is possible to call this function
+ * two times. The first pass counts the width and average width. If the column
+ * contains fields that are too large (a width greater than 2 * average) then
+ * the column is marked as "extreme". In the second pass all extreme fields
+ * are ignored and the column width is counted from non-extreme fields only.
  */
 static int count_column_width(struct libscols_table *tb,
 			      struct libscols_column *cl,
@@ -508,6 +1074,19 @@ static int count_column_width(struct libscols_table *tb,
 	assert(cl);
 
 	cl->width = 0;
+	if (!cl->width_min) {
+		if (cl->width_hint < 1 && scols_table_is_maxout(tb) && tb->is_term) {
+			cl->width_min = (size_t) (cl->width_hint * tb->termwidth);
+			if (cl->width_min && !is_last_column(cl))
+				cl->width_min--;
+		}
+		if (scols_cell_get_data(&cl->header)) {
+			size_t len = mbs_safe_width(scols_cell_get_data(&cl->header));
+			cl->width_min = max(cl->width_min, len);
+		}
+		if (!cl->width_min)
+			cl->width_min = 1;
+	}
 
 	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
 	while (scols_table_next_line(tb, &itr, &ln) == 0) {
@@ -516,15 +1095,20 @@ static int count_column_width(struct libscols_table *tb,
 
 		rc = cell_to_buffer(tb, ln, cl, buf);
 		if (rc)
-			return rc;
+			goto done;
 
 		data = buffer_get_data(buf);
-		len = data ? mbs_safe_width(data) : 0;
+
+		if (!data)
+			len = 0;
+		else if (scols_column_is_customwrap(cl))
+			len = cl->wrap_chunksize(cl, data, cl->wrapfunc_data);
+		else
+			len = mbs_safe_width(data);
 
 		if (len == (size_t) -1)		/* ignore broken multibyte strings */
 			len = 0;
-		if (len > cl->width_max)
-			cl->width_max = len;
+		cl->width_max = max(len, cl->width_max);
 
 		if (cl->is_extreme && len > cl->width_avg * 2)
 			continue;
@@ -532,81 +1116,105 @@ static int count_column_width(struct libscols_table *tb,
 			sum += len;
 			count++;
 		}
-		if (len > cl->width)
-			cl->width = len;
+		cl->width = max(len, cl->width);
+		if (scols_column_is_tree(cl)) {
+			size_t treewidth = buffer_get_safe_art_size(buf);
+			cl->width_treeart = max(cl->width_treeart, treewidth);
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (count && cl->width_avg == 0) {
 		cl->width_avg = sum / count;
-
 		if (cl->width_max > cl->width_avg * 2)
 			cl->is_extreme = 1;
 	}
 
-	/* check and set minimal column width */
-	if (scols_cell_get_data(&cl->header))
-		cl->width_min = mbs_safe_width(scols_cell_get_data(&cl->header));
-
 	/* enlarge to minimal width */
 	if (cl->width < cl->width_min && !scols_column_is_strict_width(cl))
 		cl->width = cl->width_min;
 
-	/* use relative size for large columns */
+	/* use absolute size for large columns */
 	else if (cl->width_hint >= 1 && cl->width < (size_t) cl->width_hint
 		 && cl->width_min < (size_t) cl->width_hint)
 
 		cl->width = (size_t) cl->width_hint;
 
+done:
 	ON_DBG(COL, dbg_column(tb, cl));
 	return rc;
 }
 
-
 /*
- * This is core of the scols_* voodo...
+ * This is core of the scols_* voodoo...
  */
 static int recount_widths(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_buffer *buf)
 {
 	struct libscols_column *cl;
 	struct libscols_iter itr;
-	size_t width = 0;		/* output width */
-	int trunc_only, rc = 0;
+	size_t width = 0, width_min = 0;	/* output width */
+	int stage, rc = 0;
 	int extremes = 0;
+	size_t colsepsz;
 
 
 	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "recounting widths (termwidth=%zu)", tb->termwidth));
 
+	colsepsz = mbs_safe_width(colsep(tb));
+
 	/* set basic columns width
 	 */
 	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
 	while (scols_table_next_column(tb, &itr, &cl) == 0) {
+		int is_last;
+
+		if (scols_column_is_hidden(cl))
+			continue;
 		rc = count_column_width(tb, cl, buf);
 		if (rc)
-			return rc;
+			goto done;
+
+		is_last = is_last_column(cl);
 
-		width += cl->width + (is_last_column(tb, cl) ? 0 : 1);
+		width += cl->width + (is_last ? 0 : colsepsz);		/* separator for non-last column */
+		width_min += cl->width_min + (is_last ? 0 : colsepsz);
 		extremes += cl->is_extreme;
 	}
 
-	if (!tb->is_term)
-		return 0;
+	if (!tb->is_term) {
+		DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, " non-terminal output"));
+		goto done;
+	}
 
-	/* reduce columns with extreme fields
-	 */
+	/* be paranoid */
+	if (width_min > tb->termwidth && scols_table_is_maxout(tb)) {
+		DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, " min width larger than terminal! [width=%zu, term=%zu]", width_min, tb->termwidth));
+
+		scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+		while (width_min > tb->termwidth
+		       && scols_table_next_column(tb, &itr, &cl) == 0) {
+			if (scols_column_is_hidden(cl))
+				continue;
+			width_min--;
+			cl->width_min--;
+		}
+		DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, " min width reduced to %zu", width_min));
+	}
+
+	/* reduce columns with extreme fields */
 	if (width > tb->termwidth && extremes) {
-		DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "   reduce width (extreme columns)"));
+		DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, " reduce width (extreme columns)"));
 
 		scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
 		while (scols_table_next_column(tb, &itr, &cl) == 0) {
 			size_t org_width;
 
-			if (!cl->is_extreme)
+			if (!cl->is_extreme || scols_column_is_hidden(cl))
 				continue;
 
 			org_width = cl->width;
 			rc = count_column_width(tb, cl, buf);
 			if (rc)
-				return rc;
+				goto done;
 
 			if (org_width > cl->width)
 				width -= org_width - cl->width;
@@ -617,17 +1225,17 @@ static int recount_widths(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_buffer *buf
 
 	if (width < tb->termwidth) {
 		if (extremes) {
-			DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "   enlarge width (extreme columns)"));
+			DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, " enlarge width (extreme columns)"));
 
 			/* enlarge the first extreme column */
 			scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
 			while (scols_table_next_column(tb, &itr, &cl) == 0) {
 				size_t add;
 
-				if (!cl->is_extreme)
+				if (!cl->is_extreme || scols_column_is_hidden(cl))
 					continue;
 
-				/* this column is tooo large, ignore?
+				/* this column is too large, ignore?
 				if (cl->width_max - cl->width >
 						(tb->termwidth - width))
 					continue;
@@ -646,12 +1254,14 @@ static int recount_widths(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_buffer *buf
 		}
 
 		if (width < tb->termwidth && scols_table_is_maxout(tb)) {
-			DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "   enlarge width (max-out)"));
+			DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, " enlarge width (max-out)"));
 
-			/* try enlarge all columns */
+			/* try enlarging all columns */
 			while (width < tb->termwidth) {
 				scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
 				while (scols_table_next_column(tb, &itr, &cl) == 0) {
+					if (scols_column_is_hidden(cl))
+						continue;
 					cl->width++;
 					width++;
 					if (width == tb->termwidth)
@@ -660,67 +1270,133 @@ static int recount_widths(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_buffer *buf
 			}
 		} else if (width < tb->termwidth) {
 			/* enlarge the last column */
-			struct libscols_column *cl = list_entry(
+			struct libscols_column *col = list_entry(
 				tb->tb_columns.prev, struct libscols_column, cl_columns);
 
-			DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "   enlarge width (last column)"));
+			DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, " enlarge width (last column)"));
 
-			if (!scols_column_is_right(cl) && tb->termwidth - width > 0) {
-				cl->width += tb->termwidth - width;
+			if (!scols_column_is_right(col) && tb->termwidth - width > 0) {
+				col->width += tb->termwidth - width;
 				width = tb->termwidth;
 			}
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* bad, we have to reduce output width, this is done in two steps:
-	 * 1/ reduce columns with a relative width and with truncate flag
-	 * 2) reduce columns with a relative width without truncate flag
+	/* bad, we have to reduce output width, this is done in three stages:
+	 *
+	 * 1) trunc relative with trunc flag if the column width is greater than
+	 *    expected column width (it means "width_hint * terminal_width").
+	 *
+	 * 2) trunc all with trunc flag
+	 *
+	 * 3) trunc relative without trunc flag
+	 *
+	 * Note that SCOLS_FL_WRAP (if no custom wrap function is specified) is
+	 * interpreted as SCOLS_FL_TRUNC.
 	 */
-	trunc_only = 1;
-	while (width > tb->termwidth) {
-		size_t org = width;
+	for (stage = 1; width > tb->termwidth && stage <= 3; ) {
+		size_t org_width = width;
 
-		DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "   reduce width (current=%zu, "
-					 "wanted=%zu, mode=%s)",
-					width, tb->termwidth,
-					trunc_only ? "trunc-only" : "all-relative"));
+		DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, " reduce width - #%d stage (current=%zu, wanted=%zu)",
+				stage, width, tb->termwidth));
 
 		scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
 		while (scols_table_next_column(tb, &itr, &cl) == 0) {
+
+			int trunc_flag = 0;
+
+			DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(cl, "   checking %s (width=%zu, treeart=%zu)",
+						cl->header.data, cl->width, cl->width_treeart));
+			if (scols_column_is_hidden(cl))
+				continue;
 			if (width <= tb->termwidth)
 				break;
-			if (cl->width_hint > 1 && !scols_column_is_trunc(cl))
-				continue;	/* never truncate columns with absolute sizes */
-			if (scols_column_is_tree(cl))
-				continue;	/* never truncate the tree */
-			if (trunc_only && !scols_column_is_trunc(cl))
-				continue;
+
+			/* never truncate if already minimal width */
 			if (cl->width == cl->width_min)
 				continue;
 
-			/* truncate column with relative sizes */
-			if (cl->width_hint < 1 && cl->width > 0 && width > 0 &&
-			    cl->width > cl->width_hint * tb->termwidth) {
+			/* never truncate the tree */
+			if (scols_column_is_tree(cl) && width <= cl->width_treeart)
+				continue;
+
+			/* nothing to truncate */
+			if (cl->width == 0 || width == 0)
+				continue;
+
+			trunc_flag = scols_column_is_trunc(cl)
+				    || (scols_column_is_wrap(cl) && !scols_column_is_customwrap(cl));
+
+			switch (stage) {
+			/* #1 stage - trunc relative with TRUNC flag */
+			case 1:
+				if (!trunc_flag)		/* ignore: missing flag */
+					break;
+				if (cl->width_hint <= 0 || cl->width_hint >= 1)	/* ignore: no relative */
+					break;
+				if (cl->width < (size_t) (cl->width_hint * tb->termwidth)) /* ignore: smaller than expected width */
+					break;
+
+				DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "     reducing (relative with flag)"));
 				cl->width--;
 				width--;
-			}
-			/* truncate column with absolute size */
-			if (cl->width_hint > 1 && cl->width > 0 && width > 0 &&
-			    !trunc_only) {
+				break;
+
+			/* #2 stage - trunc all with TRUNC flag */
+			case 2:
+				if (!trunc_flag)		/* ignore: missing flag */
+					break;
+
+				DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "     reducing (all with flag)"));
 				cl->width--;
 				width--;
+				break;
+
+			/* #3 stage - trunc relative without flag */
+			case 3:
+				if (cl->width_hint <= 0 || cl->width_hint >= 1)	/* ignore: no relative */
+					break;
+
+				DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "     reducing (relative without flag)"));
+				cl->width--;
+				width--;
+				break;
 			}
 
+			/* hide zero width columns */
+			if (cl->width == 0)
+				cl->flags |= SCOLS_FL_HIDDEN;
 		}
-		if (org == width) {
-			if (trunc_only)
-				trunc_only = 0;
-			else
+
+		/* the current stage is without effect, go to the next */
+		if (org_width == width)
+			stage++;
+	}
+
+	/* ignore last column(s) or force last column to be truncated if
+	 * nowrap mode enabled */
+	if (tb->no_wrap && width > tb->termwidth) {
+		scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_BACKWARD);
+		while (scols_table_next_column(tb, &itr, &cl) == 0) {
+
+			if (scols_column_is_hidden(cl))
+				continue;
+			if (width <= tb->termwidth)
 				break;
+			if (width - cl->width < tb->termwidth) {
+				size_t r =  width - tb->termwidth;
+
+				cl->flags |= SCOLS_FL_TRUNC;
+				cl->width -= r;
+				width -= r;
+			} else {
+				cl->flags |= SCOLS_FL_HIDDEN;
+				width -= cl->width + colsepsz;
+			}
 		}
 	}
-
-	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "  result: %zu", width));
+done:
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, " final width: %zu (rc=%d)", width, rc));
 	ON_DBG(TAB, dbg_columns(tb));
 
 	return rc;
@@ -742,64 +1418,281 @@ static size_t strlen_line(struct libscols_line *ln)
 	return sz;
 }
 
+static void cleanup_printing(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_buffer *buf)
+{
+	if (!tb)
+		return;
 
+	free_buffer(buf);
 
-/**
- * scols_print_table:
- * @tb: table
- *
- * Prints the table to the output stream.
- *
- * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
- */
-int scols_print_table(struct libscols_table *tb)
+	if (tb->priv_symbols) {
+		scols_table_set_symbols(tb, NULL);
+		tb->priv_symbols = 0;
+	}
+}
+
+static int initialize_printing(struct libscols_table *tb, struct libscols_buffer **buf)
 {
-	int rc = 0;
-	size_t bufsz;
+	size_t bufsz, extra_bufsz = 0;
 	struct libscols_line *ln;
 	struct libscols_iter itr;
-	struct libscols_buffer *buf;
+	int rc;
 
-	assert(tb);
-	if (!tb)
-		return -1;
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "initialize printing"));
+	*buf = NULL;
 
-	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "printing"));
-	if (!tb->symbols)
-		scols_table_set_symbols(tb, NULL);	/* use default */
+	if (!tb->symbols) {
+		rc = scols_table_set_default_symbols(tb);
+		if (rc)
+			goto err;
+		tb->priv_symbols = 1;
+	} else
+		tb->priv_symbols = 0;
+
+	if (tb->format == SCOLS_FMT_HUMAN)
+		tb->is_term = tb->termforce == SCOLS_TERMFORCE_NEVER  ? 0 :
+			      tb->termforce == SCOLS_TERMFORCE_ALWAYS ? 1 :
+			      isatty(STDOUT_FILENO);
+
+	if (tb->is_term) {
+		size_t width = (size_t) scols_table_get_termwidth(tb);
+
+		if (tb->termreduce > 0 && tb->termreduce < width) {
+			width -= tb->termreduce;
+			scols_table_set_termwidth(tb, width);
+		}
+		bufsz = width;
+	} else
+		bufsz = BUFSIZ;
 
-	tb->is_term = isatty(STDOUT_FILENO) ? 1 : 0;
-	tb->termwidth = tb->is_term ? get_terminal_width() : 0;
-	if (tb->termwidth <= 0)
-		tb->termwidth = 80;
-	tb->termwidth -= tb->termreduce;
+	if (!tb->is_term || tb->format != SCOLS_FMT_HUMAN || scols_table_is_tree(tb))
+		tb->header_repeat = 0;
 
-	bufsz = tb->termwidth;
+	/*
+	 * Estimate extra space necessary for tree, JSON or another output
+	 * decoration.
+	 */
+	if (scols_table_is_tree(tb))
+		extra_bufsz += tb->nlines * strlen(vertical_symbol(tb));
+
+	switch (tb->format) {
+	case SCOLS_FMT_RAW:
+		extra_bufsz += tb->ncols;			/* separator between columns */
+		break;
+	case SCOLS_FMT_JSON:
+		if (tb->format == SCOLS_FMT_JSON)
+			extra_bufsz += tb->nlines * 3;		/* indention */
+		/* fallthrough */
+	case SCOLS_FMT_EXPORT:
+	{
+		struct libscols_column *cl;
+
+		scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+
+		while (scols_table_next_column(tb, &itr, &cl) == 0) {
+			if (scols_column_is_hidden(cl))
+				continue;
+			extra_bufsz += strlen(scols_cell_get_data(&cl->header));	/* data */
+			extra_bufsz += 2;						/* separators */
+		}
+		break;
+	}
+	case SCOLS_FMT_HUMAN:
+		break;
+	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Enlarge buffer if necessary, the buffer should be large enough to
+	 * store line data and tree ascii art (or another decoration).
+	 */
 	scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
 	while (scols_table_next_line(tb, &itr, &ln) == 0) {
-		size_t sz = strlen_line(ln);
+		size_t sz;
+
+		sz = strlen_line(ln) + extra_bufsz;
 		if (sz > bufsz)
 			bufsz = sz;
 	}
 
-	buf = new_buffer(bufsz + 1);	/* data + space for \0 */
-	if (!buf)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	*buf = new_buffer(bufsz + 1);	/* data + space for \0 */
+	if (!*buf) {
+		rc = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err;
+	}
 
-	if (!(scols_table_is_raw(tb) || scols_table_is_export(tb))) {
-		rc = recount_widths(tb, buf);
+	if (tb->format == SCOLS_FMT_HUMAN) {
+		rc = recount_widths(tb, *buf);
 		if (rc != 0)
+			goto err;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+err:
+	cleanup_printing(tb, *buf);
+	return rc;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scola_table_print_range:
+ * @tb: table
+ * @start: first printed line or NULL to print from the begin of the table
+ * @end: last printed line or NULL to print all from start.
+ *
+ * If the start is the first line in the table than prints table header too.
+ * The header is printed only once. This does not work for trees.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ */
+int scols_table_print_range(	struct libscols_table *tb,
+				struct libscols_line *start,
+				struct libscols_line *end)
+{
+	struct libscols_buffer *buf = NULL;
+	struct libscols_iter itr;
+	int rc;
+
+	if (scols_table_is_tree(tb))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "printing range from API"));
+
+	rc = initialize_printing(tb, &buf);
+	if (rc)
+		return rc;
+
+	if (start) {
+		itr.direction = SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD;
+		itr.head = &tb->tb_lines;
+		itr.p = &start->ln_lines;
+	} else
+		scols_reset_iter(&itr, SCOLS_ITER_FORWARD);
+
+	if (!start || itr.p == tb->tb_lines.next) {
+		rc = print_header(tb, buf);
+		if (rc)
 			goto done;
 	}
 
+	rc = print_range(tb, buf, &itr, end);
+done:
+	cleanup_printing(tb, buf);
+	return rc;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_table_print_range_to_string:
+ * @tb: table
+ * @start: first printed line or NULL to print from the beginning of the table
+ * @end: last printed line or NULL to print all from start.
+ * @data: pointer to the beginning of a memory area to print to
+ *
+ * The same as scols_table_print_range(), but prints to @data instead of
+ * stream.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ */
+#ifdef HAVE_OPEN_MEMSTREAM
+int scols_table_print_range_to_string(	struct libscols_table *tb,
+					struct libscols_line *start,
+					struct libscols_line *end,
+					char **data)
+{
+	FILE *stream, *old_stream;
+	size_t sz;
+	int rc;
+
+	if (!tb)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "printing range to string"));
+
+	/* create a stream for output */
+	stream = open_memstream(data, &sz);
+	if (!stream)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	old_stream = scols_table_get_stream(tb);
+	scols_table_set_stream(tb, stream);
+	rc = scols_table_print_range(tb, start, end);
+	fclose(stream);
+	scols_table_set_stream(tb, old_stream);
+
+	return rc;
+}
+#else
+int scols_table_print_range_to_string(
+			struct libscols_table *tb __attribute__((__unused__)),
+			struct libscols_line *start __attribute__((__unused__)),
+			struct libscols_line *end __attribute__((__unused__)),
+			char **data __attribute__((__unused__)))
+{
+	return -ENOSYS;
+}
+#endif
+
+static int __scols_print_table(struct libscols_table *tb, int *is_empty)
+{
+	int rc = 0;
+	struct libscols_buffer *buf = NULL;
+
+	if (!tb)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "printing"));
+	if (is_empty)
+		*is_empty = 0;
+
+	if (list_empty(&tb->tb_columns)) {
+		DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "error -- no columns"));
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+	if (list_empty(&tb->tb_lines)) {
+		DBG(TAB, ul_debugobj(tb, "ignore -- no lines"));
+		if (is_empty)
+			*is_empty = 1;
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	tb->header_printed = 0;
+	rc = initialize_printing(tb, &buf);
+	if (rc)
+		return rc;
+
+	fput_table_open(tb);
+
+	if (tb->format == SCOLS_FMT_HUMAN)
+		print_title(tb);
+
+	rc = print_header(tb, buf);
+	if (rc)
+		goto done;
+
 	if (scols_table_is_tree(tb))
 		rc = print_tree(tb, buf);
 	else
 		rc = print_table(tb, buf);
 
+	fput_table_close(tb);
 done:
-	free_buffer(buf);
+	cleanup_printing(tb, buf);
+	return rc;
+}
+
+/**
+ * scols_print_table:
+ * @tb: table
+ *
+ * Prints the table to the output stream and terminate by \n.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
+ */
+int scols_print_table(struct libscols_table *tb)
+{
+	int empty = 0;
+	int rc = __scols_print_table(tb, &empty);
+
+	if (rc == 0 && !empty)
+		fputc('\n', tb->out);
 	return rc;
 }
 
@@ -812,10 +1705,10 @@ done:
  *
  * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error.
  */
+#ifdef HAVE_OPEN_MEMSTREAM
 int scols_print_table_to_string(struct libscols_table *tb, char **data)
 {
-#ifdef HAVE_OPEN_MEMSTREAM
-	FILE *stream;
+	FILE *stream, *old_stream;
 	size_t sz;
 	int rc;
 
@@ -829,13 +1722,20 @@ int scols_print_table_to_string(struct libscols_table *tb, char **data)
 	if (!stream)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	old_stream = scols_table_get_stream(tb);
 	scols_table_set_stream(tb, stream);
-	rc = scols_print_table(tb);
+	rc = __scols_print_table(tb, NULL);
 	fclose(stream);
+	scols_table_set_stream(tb, old_stream);
 
 	return rc;
+}
 #else
+int scols_print_table_to_string(
+		struct libscols_table *tb __attribute__((__unused__)),
+		char **data  __attribute__((__unused__)))
+{
 	return -ENOSYS;
-#endif
 }
+#endif
 
-- 
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