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2026-09-15 16:57 UTC

Something to watch out for in macOS 27’s Terminal.app: Have you been noticing that, starting with macOS 27, you have been consistently failing to SSH to a remote machine? Is it the case that the remote machine’s password ends with a shifted character? There is a new setting: “Shift Return sends Meta Return” under Settings > Profiles > (profile) > Keyboard. This setting (enabled by default!) will cause a shift-return keypress to insert an ESC¹ before the return is sent. So if you type: h-u-n-t-e-r-2--8-- then you’ve accidentally misspelled your password with an extra ESC at the end. If you hit this issue, be sure to disable that setting. (Credit to mmentovai who tracked this down, and who doesn’t mind me spreading the word.) ¹ See https://emacsredux.com/blog/2025/03/03/the-role-of-the-escape-key-in-emacs/ about the interchangeability of ESC and M-.

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