According to lesskey \b
signifies backspace, and \kx
signifies delete.
I have tried both:
~/.lesskey
#command
\kx back-screen
\b back-screen
on Kitty and Apple Terminal, and neither seems to work.
❯ less --version
less 608 (PCRE2 regular expressions)
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MacOS 13.0