Oh My Zsh's $ZSH/lib Loads Before Plugins—Here's Why That Matters
Oh My Zsh sources $ZSH/lib/ before plugins and themes, making lib functions globally available but risking silent overrides.
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Oh My Zsh sources $ZSH/lib/ before plugins and themes, making lib functions globally available but risking silent overrides.
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oh-my-zsh documents support for ZSH_THEME="random" to select a theme from the themes directory at shell startup. The selection is performed by _oh_my_zsh_random_theme in lib/theme-functions.zsh. The implementation prefers the external shuf command when available and falls back to the shell built-in $RANDOM otherwise. Documentation describes the feature but d