1/N: This is kind of illustrative of the current state of my "thought process" in These Modern Times.
I still use Mutt, a terminal-based email handling program. Mutt makes you focus on what's important -- the body of the email, and leaves everything else for external programs.
6/6: So I'm sitting there, wondering what alternatives might be available, when it occurred to me: Why is Pandoc's only terminal writer for ANSI? Why isn't there an `ncurses` writer, which would support whatever TERM is set to? So I thought, "Maybe I could write this myself." And the user could set mappings from Pandoc styles to ncurses attributes...
...Pandoc, and all of its readers/writers, are written in Haskell.
Yes, there is a Lua interface -- it's unclear whether that's enough.
ewhac
Talin