Basta: Terminal status line in 153 lines of Bash

When I try it, the clock sits in reverse-color at the start of the last line, followed by the hostname and directory. As it should.

I would like to use PS1='> '. Almost identical to your '$' prompt.

However on the $PS1 line, after the clock updates the cursor sits hard against the left margin, and not at the end of the newer truncated prompt. Looks like the clock-update should finish by rewriting the prompt also.

Note I call it the 'clock-update', but I'm not sure why the cursor suddenly slams back to the left margin after a time, 10-20 seconds or so. I initially thought it was the clock updating, and that may be so. It happens whether the cursor has reached that second-last line or is still halfway down the page.

     +---- prompt cursor here after clock-update
     |
     | +-- prompt cursor should be here
     | |
     V V
     > 
     08-27/18:06 m70t /home/jvs/dl/tmp/basta-master