[bofh23]

> 5. What about scrolling?

The less(1) command has horizontal scrolling, just invoke it with the -S or --chop-long-lines options or toggle that feature while paging a file.

I agree it would be nicer if less(1) had a user configurable header with a format option to set it to the contents of the first line in a file or stdin or perhaps the most recent line matching a regex to allow for multiple tables and an option to make it scroll horizontally in -S or --chop-long-lines mode.