tmux backspace patch?

[Olivier Cochard-Labbé]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Patrick <gibblertron at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, there:
>
>
> I was just wondering about the backspace patch for tmux. Since upgrading to
> tmux 1.9a (from 1.8) where this patch is unconditionally applied, my
> backspace key no longer works in the tmux command prompt (e.g. <C-b>:). I
> had to remove the patch and manually rebuild to get it to work. I'm just
> wondering what purpose this patch serves? I don't really understand what
> this patch is doing, but I see from Google searching that I'm not the only
> one to have the exact same issue with this patch.
>
>
Hi,
I've the same regression: I need to use shift + backspace

now.