Has a TUI implementation of this approach been considered? a lot of terminal focused situations may not have any GUI functionality but could benefit greatly from the runbook framework.

Thanks! Macroexpanded below.

Since the cutoff for duplicates is about a year (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) and the most recent major thread was only a few weeks ago, I've marked the current post as a dupe. (Sorry ellieh!)

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