I'm not arguing for a monochrome shell with no information; my current prompt is: [user@hostname:path](git branch)$ There are colours highlighting these secti

I'm not arguing for a monochrome shell with no information; my current prompt is: [user@hostname:path](git branch)$ There are colours highlighting these sections. What I'm referring to is the multi-line prompts with dates, times, uptimes etc that surely just clutter up the history view?