show color

[jacob314]

• Ship the showColor option for terminals.
  We have had the option to show nice color output for nested shell commands but we just didn't ship it to users.

Fixes #24476

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request updates the default behavior for terminal output colors. By changing the default setting to enabled, the application will now provide a more visually rich experience in the terminal out-of-the-box, ensuring consistency across the codebase and documentation.

Highlights

• Default Configuration Change: Updated the default value for the 'showColor' setting from false to true across all configuration schemas and documentation.

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Code Review

This pull request updates the default value of the tools.shell.showColor setting from false to true. The change is consistently applied across the documentation, the settings schema, and the CLI configuration. I have no feedback to provide.