Colors in Emacs shell prompt

Question

Is it possible to use colors in the Emacs shell prompt (the prompt itself, not the rest of the shell screen) with the bash PS1 variable? I believe I have the syntax correct

Answer 1

I would recommend not to change the face globally (since there are many comint users besides shell mode) but in a buffer specific manner by setting a mode hook:

(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook
      (lambda ()
        (face-remap-set-base 'comint-highlight-prompt :inherit nil)))