base prompt now supports 256 and 24 bit color

base/zeesh.zsh

@@ -6,25 +6,6 @@ fi
 
 setopt prompt_subst
 
-# color depth
-colordepth=4 
-if [[ "$COLORTERM" == "truecolor" || "$COLORTERM" == "24bit" ]]; then
-    colorcount=16000000
-else case $TERM in
-    iterm       |\
-    vte*        |\
-    *-truecolor )
-        export COLORTERM="truecolor" # environmental consistency
-        colorcount=16000000
-        ;;
-    *-256color  )
-        colorcount=256
-        ;;
-    *)
-        colorcount=$(tput colors | tr -d "\n")
-        ;;
-esac
-
 kitty_available=n
 if (( ${+KITTY_SHELL_INTEGRATION} )); then
     kitty_available=y
@@ -45,3 +26,29 @@ function ticker_message () {
 function ticker_finish () {
     [[ $_zeeshdev_ticker_newlines == 0 ]] && printf "\r${(l:$cols:: :)A}\r"
 }
+
+# color depth
+colordepth=4
+if [[ $_zeeshdev_force_color_count -gt 0 ]]; then
+    colorcount=$_zeeshdev_force_color_count
+    ticker_message "zeesh: color count set to $colorcount (fuse blown)"
+elif [[ "$COLORTERM" == "truecolor" || "$COLORTERM" == "24bit" ]]; then
+    ticker_message "zeesh: true color detected! (via COLORTERM)"
+    colorcount=16000000
+else case $TERM in
+    iterm       |\
+    vte*        |\
+    *-truecolor )
+        export COLORTERM="truecolor" # environmental consistency
+        ticker_message "zeesh: true color detected! (via TERM)"
+        colorcount=16000000
+        ;;
+    *-256color  )
+        ticker_message "256 colors detected (via TERM)"
+        colorcount=256
+        ;;
+    *)
+        colorcount=$(tput colors | tr -d "\n")
+        ticker_message "tput reports $colorcount colors"
+        ;;
+esac fi