Make Home, End and Delete keys work on FreeBSD

This tutorial will explain you how you can enable Home, End and Delete keys in ssh terminal of FreeBSD.

This configuration is not applicable for Linux distributions as all of them i have seen have these keys working by default.

The default environment for FreeBSD is CSH. You will need to open .cshrc file located in your home directory.

It should like this:

# $FreeBSD: src/etc/root/dot.cshrc,v 1.29 2004/04/01 19:28:00 krion Exp $

#

# .cshrc - csh resource script, read at beginning of execution by each shell

#

# see also csh(1), environ(7).

#



# A righteous umask

umask 22



set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin $HOME/bin)



setenv  EDITOR  vi

setenv  PAGER   more

setenv  BLOCKSIZE       K



if ($?prompt) then

        # An interactive shell -- set some stuff up

        set prompt = "`/bin/hostname -s`# "

        set filec

        set history = 100

        set savehist = 100

        set mail = (/var/mail/$USER)

        if ( $?tcsh ) then

                bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word

                bindkey -k up history-search-backward

                bindkey -k down history-search-forward

        endif

endif

You need to add few lines in the if clause. Open this file with your favorite editor and after the bindkey lines add the lines bellow. To apply what you have done run this command.

[localhost]# source .cshrc

bindkey "\e[1~" beginning-of-line  # Home

bindkey "\e[7~" beginning-of-line  # Home rxvt

bindkey "\e[2~" overwrite-mode     # Ins

bindkey "\e[3~" delete-char        # Delete

bindkey "\e[4~" end-of-line        # End

bindkey "\e[8~" end-of-line        # End rxvt

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