Quick Tip: SSH Backspace
I just ran across this informative post by Jonathan Tron that solved an annoyance I’ve had for a while: backspace not doing what I want when I use SSH.
Change your Terminal Preferences
- In Terminal, select Preferences | Settings | Advanced.
- Select ‘Delete sends Ctrl-H’
You may need to do this again if you change your terminal style.
Specify a setting for nano
- On your server open ~/.nanorc
- Add ‘set rebinddelete’
And now you should have backspace working correctly for at least a few things…
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Posted August 27th, 2008 at 4:22 am in Programming |
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I do have to say, as nice as it is to get this working in Terminal, it is one of the reasons I’ve always preferred iTerm. It just does this automatically as long as you have setup the correct terminal environment for your bookmarks.
Great tip though. Thanks
August 27th, 2008 at 4:22 am