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docs: slight update to writing your own prompt doc

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David Adam 2023-06-21 21:12:12 +08:00
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@ -72,11 +72,13 @@ So, taking our previous prompt and adding some color::
A "normal" color tells the terminal to go back to its normal formatting options.
What ``set_color`` does internally is to print an escape sequence that tells the terminal to change color. So if you see something like::
``set_color`` works by producing an escape sequence, which is a special piece of text that terminals
interpret as instructions - for example, to change color. So ``set_color red`` produces the same
effect as::
echo \e\[31mfoo
that could just be ``set_color red``.
Although you can write your own escape sequences by hand, it's much easier to use ``set_color``.
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