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Backspace (BS)

Category: text · Tags: ECMA-48 Standard, VT100 · Specification ↗

BS (0x08) moves the cursor one position to the left. It does not delete the character — the character remains until overwritten. The cursor stops at column 1 and does not wrap to the previous line.

Supported by 6 of 6 backends (100%)

Support Matrix

BackendVersionSupportNotes
Alacritty0.26.0✓ yes
Ghostty1.3.1✓ yes
Kitty0.40.0✓ yes
vt1000.1.0✓ yes
WezTerm0.1.0-fork.5✓ yes
xterm.js5.5.0✓ yes

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