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title: One Line Fix for Terminal.app
date: 2010-05-24 00:00:00 Z
categories:
- linux
- mac
- terminal
- screen
layout: post
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Anybody that uses Terminal.app on Mac OS to regularly connect to Linux servers -- particularly those that use `screen` -- will be aware of the issues with backspace. The following terminal one liner seems to resolve the issues:

    $ defaults write com.apple.Terminal TermCapString xterm