Screen is awesome, I am surprised I never bothered to learn about it earlier. It all stemmed from the fact that I was working on a pretty low powered VM and couldn’t afford to open multiple xterms on it. Later when I started SSH’ing into it the screen utility came in pretty handy, however when you are on OSX and ssh into a remote box and use screen, when you hit backspace, it doesn’t instead gets the screen to give you a ‘wuff — wuff’ and I am not kidding, that’s the default message.
The fix is simple, run this on the console, close and restart, sorted.
defaults write com.apple.Terminal TermCapString xterm
