When I connect to local virtual machines using VirtualBox & Vagrant, using the command vagrant ssh my backspace/delete key doesn't appear to work. The characters do in fact get deleted from the buffer, however it looks like I am pressing space/tab with the cursor incrementing to the right, and my mistyped commands remaining. I have also noticed it only appears to happen using ZSH in the virtual machine. Using bash results in the expected behaviour.
Kitty Version: 0.10.1
OS: MacOS
OS Version: 10.13.4
Minimal Config: none
Vagrant Version: 2.1.1
VirtualBox 5.2.12
VirtualMachine: Ubuntu 16.04
reed-jones
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These kinds of things are typically caused by whatever shell you are running on the remote machine (in your case the virtual machine) not having access to the kitty terminfo files. You can remedy that by using the ssh kitten, see the entry in the kitty FAQ about it.
kovidgoyal
on 3 Jun 2018
Thanks, I did read that but I suppose I misunderstood. In any case the ssh kitten worked. Thanks for all your work!
reed-jones
on 3 Jun 2018
If you only use kitty, you can simply add this alias to your shell rc:
alias ssh="kitty +kitten ssh"
lfuelling
on 29 Oct 2019
Commenting that this fixed my issue with kitty and ssh, to boost its search engine results.
gavinhoward
on 15 Jan 2020
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These kinds of things are typically caused by whatever shell you are running on the remote machine (in your case the virtual machine) not having access to the kitty terminfo files. You can remedy that by using the ssh kitten, see the entry in the kitty FAQ about it.