One of the things that I face regularly is report generation. Often they’re free form, by which I mean not tables full of tabulated data.

Just “is this ok, is that ok, 27 of the other happened”, that sort of thing. I like to use color — green if everything is ok, red if it isn’t and so on.

I’m often out where I want the report in a web browser. But then again, I’m often at my desk, signed in to a console and I want it there. The environments couldn’t be much more different; HTML tags on the one hand, within the wrapper of a page, and ANSII escape sequences on the other. And they’re both kind of annoying and error-prone to write out explicitly, especially when you’re doing it a lot.

What to do?
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