default colors set in .bashrc for WSL are annoying to me – ubuntu

All those hard to read colors in WSL and really any Linux prompts where they have changed the colors – here’s how to turn them off

vi ~/.bashrc

change any alias’ed  commands to color=never

change color_prompt=yes to color_prompt=no

hint:  hit escape <~> to get to the vi command line then:

%s/color_prompt=yes/color_prompt=no/g

Vi or vim syntax highlighting can make it very hard to read on many terminals as well.  Here is how to turn it off there too.

in ~/.vimrc

syntax off

or you can just issue the command from within vi/vim Vi get to command line by hitting<esc> then type: syntax off

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