my %esc2action = (
    color('yellow') => sub { attron(COLOR_PAIR(1)) },
    color('reset') => sub { attroff(COLOR_PAIR(1)) },
);

sub formatted_text {
    my ($win, $text) = @_;

    # tokenize text on escape sequences
    for my $token (split /(\e\[[^m]+?m)/, $text) {
        my $act = $esc2action{$token};

        if ($act) {
            $act->();
        }
        else {
            addstr($win, $token);
        }
    }
}