i mean, i just stuck it in the Display impl; i didn’t want to put it in Debug, because i feel like the expectation for Debug is that it’s single-line if alt-mode isn’t set, or respects indentation if alt-mode is set…which this doesn’t do super nicely
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I think that repurposing # for this is smart, also think that it'd be interesting if it could be term aware for colouring and the like. 🤔
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Maybe we should have a cli!() macro?
The thing that would be interesting is having an HTML style datatype for output and delay the formatting to right before it gets printed.
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Not entirely the same, but OCaml has a `Format` module for pretty printing. I find it a bit janky tbh but it's cool that at least there is some standardisation: v2.ocaml.org/api/Format.html - you can add tags for additional formatting info: v2.ocaml.org/api/Format.htm.
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The pretty crate supplies a similar ‘whatever you want’ style of annotation support as well: github.com/Marwes/pretty. - which allows you to add on colours if you want it at some level - integration with the fmt is difficult though (term width is also an issue).
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Finding the right level of abstraction for the separation might be tricky… eg. it would also be neat if at some level you could present stuff in an accessible, non-ascii-art way, and in the process also support non-ascii consumers.