How to fix space instead of backspace in git bash

Question

In my git bash, I want to delete some characters by pressing backspace but When i do it. The backspace button will instead space what i type. How to fix this? I'm on windows 10

Answer 1

Here's what worked for me. Click on the icon in the upper left of the terminal window. Select Options, then Terminal. Under Type, pick a different terminal. Restart the terminal and see if it works. For me, any of the XTerm worked; while VT220 and VT100 gave me the same backspace issue you mentioned. Changing these options changes c:\Users\.minttyrc, which can be edited directly too.

Side note: Even though backspace has your cursor moving ahead, it's probably backspacing correctly in the buffer. So typing dir<bs><bs><bs>ls<enter> will look like dir ls, but it should give you the results of ls, not an error dir: cannot access 'ls'.

Cheers, Craig