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Why does the behavior of Backspace change in vim with SSH?

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Mar 15, 20262634 views
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When I'm accessing one particular machine through ssh, the behavior of Backspace in vim changes. Instead of deleting chars, i have a ^? . The problem is this machine acts as gateway and this problem is propagated when i'm accessing any machine behind this gateway (when I'm ssh-ing any of these mach…

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It's usually a mismatch between what's configured in you shell and what's configured in your terminal emulator. Some use backspace (0x08), some use DEL (0x7f). If, from within your terminal session, you run you'll see a line like: That erase is the …

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