Question: I am display the 256 colors for tput by colouring tho background colour using the following bash function.

```
 tput-bgcolours ()
 {
    for color in {0..255}; do
        bg=$(tput setab $color)
        echo -n $bg" "
    done
    echo $(tput sgr0)
 }

```

How can I pass a range of values to the function rather that looking all colours from 0 to 255?

Answer: 
The first step is to disable the default conda prompt modifier by running `conda config --set changeps1 false` as they already mentioned.

Next, add the following to your `.zshrc`:

```
# Determines prompt modifier if and when a conda environment is active
precmd_conda_info() {
  if [[ -n $CONDA_PREFIX ]]; then
      if [[ $(basename $CONDA_PREFIX) == "miniconda3" ]]; then
        # Without this, it would display conda version
        CONDA_ENV="(base) "
      else
        # For all environments that aren't (base)
        CONDA_ENV="($(basename $CONDA_PREFIX)) "
      fi
  # When no conda environment is active, don't show anything
  else
    CONDA_ENV=""
  fi
}

# Run the previously defined function before each prompt
precmd_functions+=( precmd_conda_info )

# Allow substitutions and expansions in the prompt
setopt prompt_subst

PROMPT='%F{cyan}$CONDA_ENV%f%F{green}%n%f %B%F{blue}%1~%f%b $ '

```

With this, the conda environment is shown before the rest of the prompt, inside parentheses, and in cyan.

If you want it to appear bold, enclose that portion in %B and %b:

```
PROMPT='%B%F{cyan}$CONDA_ENV%b%f%F{green}%n%f %B%F{blue}%1~%f%b $ '

```

If you want to use more colours, check whether your terminal supports it by running `echo $TERM`. If it returns `xterm-256color`, you can replace the colours in curly brackets by values from 0 to 255. You can check out the colours [here](https://www.calmar.ws/vim/256-xterm-24bit-rgb-color-chart.html).

PS- Those using *anaconda* instead of *miniconda* will need to replace `miniconda3` with `anaconda3` in the code.
Run:

```
conda config --set changeps1 False

```

or add `changeps1: False` to your `.condarc`.