Weird behaviour/rendering of backspace in Terminal.app when SSHing into zsh using tmux/screen
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Mar 15, 20263686 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I just stumbled upon a weird problem. When I SSH into my server (centos, zsh) and I type some stuff and hit backspace It looks like a space - but internally it really deleted the characters. Note that the space between and is actually when I hit backspace. When I now hit return gets executed. This …
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Fix for: Weird behaviour/rendering of backspace in Terminal.app when SSHing into zsh using tmux/screen
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That's unusual. I'd start by seeing whether Ctrl-L works (ie, zsh knows your terminal and can issue a clear-screen) and running to see what terminal type zsh received from Terminal.app; I have Terminal.app send and that seems to be portable and acce…
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