Delete preceding character

All hotkeys for Xterm

General Copy selection to cursor	↑   Shift + Insert
General Delete following character	Del
General Delete preceding character	⬅ Backspace
General Cancel or exit current command	Ctrl + C
General Stop current command (send it to the background)	Ctrl + Z
General Navigate through previous commands in history	↑
General Navigate through next commands in history	↓
Mouse Copy selection to cursor	Mouse middle click
Mouse Select text	Mouse movement
Mouse Keep selecting	Mouse right click
Mouse Open Xterm customization menus	Ctrl + Mouse left click

Similar combinations for other applications

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ForkLift 3

Enclosing folder

Commander style

⬅ Backspace

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Zwift (PC and macOS)

Back (mouse click lower left)

Riding / Fan view

⬅ Backspace

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Roblox

Drop tool

Accessories

⬅ Backspace

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Xyplorer

Remove the item right before the currently selected item

Other Shortcuts

⬅ Backspace

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Open Rails 0.6.2

Emergency

Advanced braking

⬅ Backspace

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Vivaldi

History back

Page

⬅ Backspace

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Roblox Studio

Delete

General Editing

⬅ Backspace

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DaVinci Resolve 15 (Mac)

Delete selected

Unknown menu

⬅ Backspace

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Place Anywhere (Fallout 4 mod)

Undo last precise movement / rotation / scaling action

General

⬅ Backspace

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KiCad 5.0.2

Delete node

EE Schema

⬅ Backspace

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WinRAR

Go back to previous folder

File management

⬅ Backspace

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Cisco IOS

Delete character to the left of the cursor

Delete CLI entries

⬅ Backspace

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IPython Shell

Delete previous character in line

Text entry

⬅ Backspace

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Menu / Abort / Exit

General

⬅ Backspace

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GeoGebra

Delete current selection

Mac desktop

⬅ Backspace

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VisualBoyAdvance-M

Select button

General controls

⬅ Backspace

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BlackBerry Classic

Reset the stopwatch and clear lap results

Clock app

⬅ Backspace

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ARK: Survival Evolved

Toggle HUD

HUD

⬅ Backspace

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Evolution

Scroll up

Mail Component - Preview Pane

⬅ Backspace

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Lacerte

Delete character to left of cursor

Letter Editor

⬅ Backspace

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draw.io

Delete selected cells

Canvas

⬅ Backspace

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Company of Heroes

Reset camera tilt

General

⬅ Backspace

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Shotcut (Mac)

Lift

Timeline

⬅ Backspace

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Shotcut

Lift

Timeline

⬅ Backspace

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PyCharm 2018.2

Delete a character to the left of the caret.

Basic editing

⬅ Backspace

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Asana

Delete current task (when task name is empty)

Task Actions

⬅ Backspace

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Asana (Mac)

Delete current task (when task name is empty)

Task Actions

⬅ Backspace

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QuickBooks Desktop

Delete a character to the left

Standard Text Editing

⬅ Backspace

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Total War: Attila (Mac)

Cancel order

Universal

⬅ Backspace

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Total War: Attila

Cancel order

Universal

⬅ Backspace

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Kerbal Space Program

Activate abort action group

Flight Controls

⬅ Backspace

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Bloons TD Battles

Sell a tower

General

⬅ Backspace

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Adobe Lightroom Classic

Delete selected photo(s)

Managing photos and catalogs

⬅ Backspace

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Bash (Unix shell)

Delete the character before the cursor

Deleting text

⬅ Backspace

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AI War Classic

Scrap selected units

General

⬅ Backspace

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Nuke

Delete an item from curve list or Delete points/shapes

Roto / RotoPaint

⬅ Backspace

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SharePoint

Delete the selection, or if there is no selection, the character in front of the cursor.

Using rich text editing

⬅ Backspace

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jEdit

Delete character before caret

Text editing

⬅ Backspace

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Atom (Windows)

(Source: Tree View) tree-view:remove

All shortcuts

⬅ Backspace

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Kindle for Mac

Back

Reading a Book

⬅ Backspace

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Rocket League

(hold) Save replay

Default keyboard controls

⬅ Backspace

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StarCraft 2

View base

Interface

⬅ Backspace

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Kindle for PC

Back

While Reading a Book

⬅ Backspace

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Roll20

Delete selected object(s)

Tools

⬅ Backspace

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Don't Starve (PC)

Toggle Debug screen

General

⬅ Backspace

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Blood

Turn around

Keyboard

⬅ Backspace

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Microsoft FrontPage

Delete one character to the left.

Edit and move text and graphics

⬅ Backspace

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Clip Studio Paint Pro

Clear

Edit menu

⬅ Backspace

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Xodo

Delete selected annotation

Annotating

⬅ Backspace

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Autodesk SketchBook (Windows)

Clear Layer

Tools

⬅ Backspace

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Microsoft Word 2016

Delete one character to the left

Delete text and graphics

⬅ Backspace

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ImageJ

Erase selection to background color

General

⬅ Backspace

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Inkscape

erase last segment of current line

Pen (Bezier) tool

⬅ Backspace

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Adobe Photoshop CC

Delete adjustment layer

Using adjustment layers

⬅ Backspace

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Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows)

Clear Selection

Timeline panel

⬅ Backspace

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Warcraft III

Cycle through town center buildings

Game commands

⬅ Backspace

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Pixelmator Pro

Delete selected layer(s)

Work with layers

⬅ Backspace

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Corel Painter

Delete current selection

Adjuster tools

⬅ Backspace

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Comodo IceDragon

Back

Navigate Through Webpages

⬅ Backspace

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Ditto

Go to the Parent Group

General

⬅ Backspace

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Microsoft PowerPoint (Slideshows)

Perform the previous animation or return to the previous slide

Control your slide show during the presentation

⬅ Backspace

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LibreOffice Impress

Play previous effect again. If no previous effect exists on this slide, show previous slide

Slide shows

⬅ Backspace

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Kodi

Back

Music visualisation

⬅ Backspace

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LibreOffice Calc

Delete the contents of selected cells

General

⬅ Backspace

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Office Delve

Go back one page

General

⬅ Backspace

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Microsoft PowerPoint (Creating presentations)

Delete one character to the left

Delete and copy text and objects

⬅ Backspace

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Grand Theft Auto V

Phone Cancel

Phone

⬅ Backspace

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Zim

Un indent selected text

Text selection

⬅ Backspace

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MindMeister

Delete an idea

General

⬅ Backspace

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Tekla Structures 20

Undo last polygon pick

Modeling

⬅ Backspace

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The Sims 4

Press while holding an object to place it in the Household inventory. Good for storing multiple things fast

Buy and Build mode

⬅ Backspace

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Google+

Navigate back

Navigation

⬅ Backspace

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Pocket for Mac

Delete

Item Menu

⬅ Backspace

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Basecamp

Delete backward

Editing

⬅ Backspace

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FileMaker

Previous character

Text

⬅ Backspace

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WinNc

Up one directory

General

⬅ Backspace

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Multi Commander

Go to parent folder (Go up)

File manager-specific

⬅ Backspace

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WPS Office

Clears the content of the active cell to reedit cell content

General

⬅ Backspace

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WinMerge

Open parent folder if possible (available only when subfolders are not included in compare)

Comparing folders

⬅ Backspace

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Tinkercad

Delete object

General

⬅ Backspace

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REAPER

Browser: Go to parent folder

Section: Media Explorer

⬅ Backspace

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Microsoft Access 2016

Move back to the previous Help topic (Back button)

Get help with Access

⬅ Backspace

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IrfanView

Go to previous image in current directory

Browsing between images

⬅ Backspace

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Krita 3.0

Fill with background color

Painting

⬅ Backspace

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ACDSee

Displays the previous item in the slideshow, Auto Advance, or View sequence

General

⬅ Backspace

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ACDSee Free

Displays the previous item in the view sequence

General

⬅ Backspace

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (All shortcuts)

Edit.DeleteBackwards

Text Editor

⬅ Backspace

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Firefox Quantum

Back

Navigation

⬅ Backspace

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 11

Go to the previous page

Browsing

⬅ Backspace

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7-Zip

Open the folder one level up

View menu

⬅ Backspace

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WinSCP

Open parent directory

Navigation

⬅ Backspace

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Zimbra Web Client

Remove selected addresses

Address balloon

⬅ Backspace

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PeaZip

Go back in history

Navigation

⬅ Backspace

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Paint.NET

Fill area with primary color

Paint bucket

⬅ Backspace

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SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

Delete one character to the left of the cursor

Text manipulation in code editor

⬅ Backspace

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Everything

Remove the last character in the jump to text

Result list

⬅ Backspace

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Microsoft Excel 2016

In cell editing mode, it deletes the character to the left of the insertion point

Other useful shortcut keys

⬅ Backspace

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Opera

Go to previous page in history

Navigation: History

⬅ Backspace

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GOM Player

Restart from the beginning

Playback control

⬅ Backspace

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Microsoft OneNote

Delete one character to the left

Type and edit notes

⬅ Backspace

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Audacity

Delete Key

Edit menu

⬅ Backspace

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Windows Voice Recorder

Go back

General

⬅ Backspace

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File Explorer

View the previous folder

Miscellaneous

⬅ Backspace

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Google Calendar

Delete an event

Modify an event

⬅ Backspace

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Overwatch

Whisper reply

Communication

⬅ Backspace

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Total Commander

Change to parent directory

Navigation

⬅ Backspace

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Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Mac)

If pressed in the body of the file list, navigate one level up from within a folder

Working with PDF Portfolios

⬅ Backspace

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Windows 10 Maps

Go back

General

⬅ Backspace

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Adobe Acrobat 2017 (Windows and Unix)

If pressed in the body of the file list, navigate one level up from within a folder

Working with PDF Portfolios

⬅ Backspace

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Command Line

Delete character left to the insertion point

Text manipulation

⬅ Backspace

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Microsoft Edge

Go back

General

⬅ Backspace

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Ducky One 2 Mini

Delete current profile value

Ducky Mini Macro

⬅ Backspace

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Xactimate

Default Zoom

View

⬅ Backspace

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