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Geek — — 2 min read

Skipping characters whilst using nano over SSH from OS X Lion 10.7

Ever since upgrading to OSX Lion 10.7 I’ve been pulling my hair out. I spend a fair bit of time connected via SSH to remote servers using Terminal, ever since the upgrade when using Nano on a remote server I would get skipped characters and all sorts of wacky behaviour.

There is a fix!

Terminal
Sneakily Apple changed the default way in which Terminal presents itself to remote servers, but you can go back!

Open Terminal and go to the Preferences (CMD+,) Hit Advanced and under emulation change “Declare terminal as” to xterm-color instead of xterm256-color.

Job Done

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