On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 2:52 AM Lewis Butler <lbutler@covisp.net> wrote:

>
> > Firstly, if that's a literal copy-and-paste, you've written percent
> open-paren rather than percent open-brace.
>
> Typo.
>

Please copy-paste rather than type things in.  Aside from that obvious
typo, your double-quotes are coming through as unicode curly-quotes, and
sometimes your single-quotes are unicode apostrophes.  This makes it
painful to use your examples as test cases.

> There's also the possibility of interference by something you haven't
> mentioned, such as an RPROMPT setting.
>
> That is the entirety of the file, barring comments.
>

Yes, but that's obviously not the ONLY file, since you are loading OMZ, and
goodness only knows what is coming in from there.


> oh-my-Zsh updates frequently so if I do not currently have the latest
> version I am no more than a day or two out of date.


This is not the list on which to be debugging OMZ problems.  If you can't
reproduce the issue when using ...

zsh -f
% autoload colors
% colors
% setopt promptsubst
% function toon {
>  echo -n "%{👹%2G%}"
> }
% PROMPT=$'$(toon) %{$fg_bold[red]%}%n@%m %{$fg_bold[green]%}# '

... then you should pursue this elsewhere, as an OMZ problem.


> Zsh versions are "5.7.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.0)" and "zsh 5.8
> (i386-portbld-freebsd12.1)", but this problem has been consistently
> inconsistent since last fall.
>

Those are at least recent enough that it should be OK.


> I’ll try playing around with a new user account on the off chance there is
> some odd setting in my Terminal.app preferences.
>

A good next step in any case.