document updated 13 years ago, on Nov 29, 2010

If all else fails, just type Ctrl-H, that always works, no matter what.

But having the proper backspace work is nice too.

(note: things marked like this are places you should press that specific key, not type the entire <...> thing out)

bash
- put this in ~/.bash_profile:
```
stty erase <ctrl-v><backspace>
```
vim
- put this in ~/.vimrc:
```
set t_kb=<ctrl-v><backspace> | fixdel
```
less
- put this in ~/.lesskey-in:
```
#line-edit
<ctrl-v><backspace>      backspace
```
  and run:
```
lesskey -o ~/.lesskey ~/.lesskey-in
```
- fuck. Well, the above advice doesn't work yet. TODO: twiddle with this some more.

Wow. The above is a clusterfuck. Apparently most things in Solaris ASSUME the backspace key is ^H.

Solution: Configure your terminal emulator to just do that. That way you only configure it one place, instead of 30 different places.