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Re: Rewrite of zsh-newuser-install

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 12:01 PM Roman Perepelitsa
<roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 10:56 AM Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 8:00 AM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > * Whatever we pick for our prompt, should we maybe implement it using the
> > > >   prompt-theme system?
> > >
> > > That would make it less "abandonware" as it was previously accused of
> > > being (tho if Debian uses it, it can't be considered completely
> > > abandoned).
> >
> > I can definitely make it use the prompt theme system.
>
> Prompt is one of the main things users want to customize in zle. I
> think more people are interested in customizing prompt than
> customizing key bindings. It's important to make it easy for them to
> do things like changing colors or adding emojis (seriously). These are
> much easier if PS1 definition is inlined. I'm afraid that promptinit
> is too difficult an abstraction to penetrate.

Bart, Dana: What exactly do you see as the upside of using the prompt
theme system? What does the user gain from taking it into use?
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