Re: precmd, preexec, and supplied prompt themes

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 12,  5:59pm, Matthew Wozniski wrote:
}
} themes should be using
} 
} typeset -a precmd_functions
} precmd_functions += my_prompt_precmd
} 
} and
} 
} typeset -a preexec_functions
} preexec_functions += my_prompt_preexec
} 
} If you're talking about prompt themes supplied with zsh, I would
} consider it a bug in the package if those aren't defined that way.

Most of the prompt themes pre-date the existence of the pre*_functions
arrays, and aren't being maintained because their inventors are no longer
zsh-* list participants.

Stomping precmd is the least of the problems with several of those
themes; they rely on now-ancient Linux console fonts for color shading,
assume light-colored text on a dark background, etc.  We need some new
ones.