Second the call for source; I'd like to tinker with this!
One obvious enhancement: it'd be great if backspace had repeat.

As it is, this is making sshing into my cygwin box to run GNU Octave much more feasible. Thanks!
A little OT, but the N800 does awesome VNCing into a 1024x768 display. By rotating it, the 768 leaves just enough room for a scrollbar. (That's how I view plots from Octave.)