I think it’s because colors can encode other information. In this case, when I see these colors I know I’m at the prompt, which is useful to distguish from other text. Plus, the different colors in the prompt encode different things (current directory is color1, etc).
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I think it’s because colors can encode other information. In this case, when I see these colors I know I’m at the prompt, which is useful to distguish from other text. Plus, the different colors in the prompt encode different things (current directory is color1, etc).