MacOS changed the default TERMINAL shell from bash to zsh with the Catalina release (10.15.x). (echo $SHELL tells you what shell terminal is using). This means customizing your terminal prompt from .bash_profile no longer works. The solution is to create a .zshrc file in your home (username) directory and insert the following line: (dot files are hidden by default on mac, view in finder by hitting command-shift-dot while in the folder with hidden files)
PROMPT='%F{green}%1~ $ %f'
This customizes the prompt to include the current directory name (%1~), to use the $ character as the prompt with a space on either side, and to be green (%F{colorselection}%f)
The customization automatically works with VISUAL STUDIO CODE (which I now am using in place of Sublime Text as a text editor / code editor, because it includes a Terminal window).
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