Mac OS X’s terminal doesn’t seem to play nice with Linux hosts in its default configuration. The character it sends for “erase” confuses the shell over on the Linux side, and no amount of stty magic has been able to fix it for me.

The simple solution, as it turns out, is to set your terminal type in the preferences for Terminal.app to “rxvt.” Magically, everything works.

Who knew? (Many people, apparently.)

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