One of the minor annoyances I noticed when working in my Ubuntu install on Slicehost over SSH was that my delete/backspace key in nano was doing a delete instead of backspace. Basically the cursor was staying put and deleting one space to the right, instead of backspacing one space to the left. It's a minor annoyance, but I spend enough time using nano to make quick fixes to config files that I needed to fix it. A quick glance through the nanorc file in /etc allowed me to fix it. Change this line: @# set rebinddelete@ To this: @set rebinddelete@ Problem solved, the delete key should behave normally now in nano. There are a lot of other options you can enable in the nanorc file, so take some time to read through it. I lowed the default tab size and had it automatically convert tabs to spaces. 2007-03-10T17:50:30+00:00 0 <p>One of the minor annoyances I noticed when working in my Ubuntu install on Slicehost over <span class="caps">SSH</span> was that my delete/backspace key in nano was doing a delete instead of backspace. Basically the cursor was staying put and deleting one space to the right, instead of backspacing one space to the left. It&#8217;s a minor annoyance, but I spend enough time using nano to make quick fixes to config files that I needed to fix it.</p> <p>A quick glance through the nanorc file in /etc allowed me to fix it.</p> <p>Change this line:</p> <p><code># set rebinddelete</code></p> <p>To this:</p> <p><code>set rebinddelete</code></p> <p>Problem solved, the delete key should behave normally now in nano. There are a lot of other options you can enable in the nanorc file, so take some time to read through it. I lowed the default tab size and had it automatically convert tabs to spaces.</p> 116 1 1 notebook/2007/03/10/fixing_nano_on_ubuntu