bors c2d26f32d3 Auto merge of #12578 - epage:help, r=weihanglo
feat(help): Add styling to help output

### What does this PR try to resolve?

Try to make `--help` output easier to parse by using terminal styling

Screenshots:

![Screenshot from 2023-09-06 09-57-11](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/assets/60961/61069af4-ef05-40ad-9240-fedea44d4c71)

![Screenshot from 2023-09-06 09-57-21](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/assets/60961/d2e69024-42aa-47c0-ad0f-24e43551b8db)

![Screenshot from 2023-09-06 09-57-36](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/assets/60961/e3d895e2-745f-48c6-9e84-d6fb67198d6d)

*(`nargo` is my shell script wrapping `cargo run --manifest-path cargo/Cargo.toml`)*

### How should we test and review this PR?

At this time, the only styling snapshotting library I know of is a pain to use, so testing this requires manually running the commands which I did.  Screenshots are included for easier evaluation of the general idea.

Snapshotting of the plain text output ensures we don't have accidental formatting regressions from this change since the formatting isn't as obvious from looking at the code.

### Additional information

Traditionally, cargo has disabled clap's styled output.  My assumed
reason is that cargo mixes custom help output with auto-generated and
you couldn't previously make it all styled.
Clap 4.2 allowed users to pass in strings styled using ANSI escape
codes, allowing us to pass in styled text that matches clap, unblocking this.  In clap
4.4.1, clap gained the ability for the user to override the style.

In this PR, I decided to use the new 4.4.1 feature to style clap's
output to match the rest of cargo's output.  Alternatively, we could use
a more subdue style that clap uses by default.

I used the `color-print` crate to allow something almost html-like for styling `&static str`.  Alternatively, we could directly embed the ANSI escape codes harder to get write, harder to inspect), or we could do the styling at runtime and enable the `string` feature in clap.

I decided to *not* style `Arg::help` messages because
- It might be distracting to have the descriptions lit up like a
  christmas tree
- It is a lot more work

The one exception I made was for `--list` since it is for a
psuedo-command (`...`) and I wanted to intentionally draw attention to
it.

#12593 made styling of `cargo -h` cleaner imo.
#12592 and #12594 were improvements I noticed while doing this.
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