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Proper backspace/delete in iTerm, Screen, and Irssi

Well I haven’t posted in what feels like months now – actually it may be months – but regardless, lots has been going on and I’ll get to that in a big post very soon. For the meantime while its fresh on my mind:

For some reason today, I noticed that the delete key on my macbook wasn’t working through iTerm in Irssi (a IRC client). Now I’ve been using it forever and I swear that it always worked before now… well actually I moved my server from SuSE to Nexenta (Solaris) so that might have caused the problem…

Anyways, the delete button doesn’t work as expected – like a backspace button. To fix, simply:

  1. Open the Bookmarks.
  2. Select Manage Profiles...
  3. Choose Keyboard Profiles
  4. Choose your current profile (probably xterm (OS X))
  5. Edit the mapping for delete to send hex code 8

Boom. Done. Enjoy all your backspacing goodness.

Thanks StudioDC!