On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 02:27:04AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 23/6/21 1:42 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > There's nothing in .bashrc which controls the terminal's interpretation > > of color escape sequences. Or in bash, anywhere.
> Excerpt from .bashrc file: > > " > > # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color) > # case "$TERM" in > # xterm-color|*-256color) color_prompt=yes;; > # esac > > # uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned > # off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window > # should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt > #force_color_prompt=yes All of that code is just for setting the shell's prompt. It has nothing to do with how the terminal interprets color codes.