0 the key that you press on a computer keyboard to move the cursor (= symbol showing your place on the screen) to an earlier point
1 the key on a computer keyboard that you use to move backwards on a line of text and remove letters that you have already typed
In computing, there has been ambiguity between the backspace key and delete key.
Furthermore, this is an actual delete key, not a historically named backspace.
Even if a terminal did interpret backspace by deleting the preceding character, the system receiving the text might not.
The space bar, dash/underscore, index, backspace and line feed repeated when continually held down.
Many typewriters don't advance accent characters, so that no backspace is needed.
中文繁体
倒退鍵（電腦鍵盤上的按鍵，用於將螢幕顯示的遊標位置後移）…
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退格键（计算机键盘上的按键，用于将屏幕显示的光标位置后移）…
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tecla de retroceso [feminine]…
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klawiszbackspace, klawiszcofający…
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touche [feminine] de retour arrière…
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returtast [masculine], rettetast [masculine]…
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