Make Home, End and Delete keys work on FreeBSD
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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:
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# $FreeBSD: src/etc/csh.cshrc,v 1.3 1999/08/27 23:23:40 peter Exp $
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#
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# System-wide .cshrc file for csh(1).
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[root@onlinehowto ~]$ cat /usr/home/stefan/.cshrc
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# $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.cshrc,v 1.13 2001/01/10 17:35:28 archie Exp $
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#
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# .cshrc – csh resource script, read at beginning of execution by each shell
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#
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# see also csh(1), environ(7).
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#
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alias h history 25
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alias j jobs -l
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alias la ls -a
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alias lf ls -FA
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alias ll ls -lA
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# A righteous umask
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umask 22
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set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin $HOME/bin)
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setenv EDITOR vi
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setenv PAGER more
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setenv BLOCKSIZE K
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if ($?prompt) then
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# An interactive shell — set some stuff up
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set filec
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set history = 100
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set savehist = 100
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set mail = (/var/mail/$USER)
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if ( $?tcsh ) then
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bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word
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bindkey -k up history-search-backward
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bindkey -k down history-search-forward
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endif
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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
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bindkey "\e[1~" beginning-of-line # Home
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bindkey "\e[7~" beginning-of-line # Home rxvt
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bindkey "\e[2~" overwrite-mode # Ins
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bindkey "\e[3~" delete-char # Delete
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bindkey "\e[4~" end-of-line # End
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bindkey "\e[8~" end-of-line # End rxvt
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Tags: cshrc, default environment, End, FreeBSD, home, interactive shell, linux distributions, mail user, sbin, set mail
yeah. thanks