Backspace in Screen

By adam | Published: April 4, 2008

I finally got sick of hitting Ctrl-H to backspace while in a screen session today, so I found a way around it:

Try editing

~/.bashrc

And adding:

alias screen='TERM=screen screen'

Not sure if this has adverse effects and there might be a better way to do it, but hey, it works!

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One Comment

  1. Matt Pulver
    Posted April 4, 2008 at 9:45 am | Permalink

    That works for me too.

    Prompted by your post, I tried to see if there was a more natural way of achieving this by editing the screenrc config file(s). I wasn’t able to find a cleaner solution than this. If you (or anyone) finds such a way, I would be interested.

    Thanks; now I don’t have to see the Wuff Wuff!! any more :)

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