On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 5:06 AM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
wrote:

>
> > +prompt_newuser_precmd() {
> > +  local exitstatus=$?
>
> It's not documented that precmd hooks can rely on $? to be the exit code
> of the last command.  That does work, though (because callhookfunc()
> calls doshfunc(noreturnval=1)), and seems useful, and I guess we won't
> want to change it, so shall we document it?


It's intentional and as far as I recall has always been assumed, so ... yes.