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The main thing I use the pimpshells for (and all I can honestly say is KNOW I’m using from omZ) is the colored/fancy prompts.

I’ve used colored informative prompts since DOS and having production servers be brilliantly red and dev servers a different color is quite helpful.



You don't need oh my zsh for colorful prompts though.


Yeah it's literally ANSI escapes.




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