> I respect others like no color (and there's already a solution per that, above), but I don't quite get the desire to have just some color (prompts but not app

> I respect others like no color (and there's already a solution per that, above), but I don't quite get the desire to have just some color (prompts but not applications). Can someone with this opinion explain their rationale? The output is sometimes 'too busy' and the colours are of arbitrary values which may mean any number of things, and if you don't what they mean they're just noise. Further the same thing may be signified by different colours by different programs (editor A may have, e.g., variables as colour X, but editor B may have variables as colour Y, and the pager as colour Z). Perhaps if I was a coder, using one environment/editor/IDE, I could learn things. But as a sysadmin (whose been doing this for a few decades: Linux, BSD, Solaris, IRIX), I have never found colour† useful since I'm doing things in all sorts of contexts in the course of a day, and have never really found a need. † Besides the prompt perhaps.