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Make Home, End and Delete keys work on FreeBSD

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Date: 2007-Oct-07
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Author: Stephen Think

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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