Comments on: FreeBSD: Customize Home, Del, Insert keys for BASH shell

By: diegomichel

diegomichel — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:35:11 +0000

Thanks alot, i got a vps with freebsd and have been hard just because this issue, now even the paste and copy from mouse works perfectly.

By: Giofe

Giofe — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:47:12 +0000

it works very well on bash – Solaris 10.

By: uhoo

uhoo — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:40:01 +0000

Thanks, but…
How to do this in (T)cshell ? I’ve no the program ‘export’.
I’m freebsd 7.1.

By: Robvdl

Robvdl — Sun, 25 May 2008 02:25:00 +0000

Thanks a lot, that fixed the keys in bash, but there’s one more: the END key in the nano editor doesn’t work.

How would I get that going?

By: BK

BK — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:18:06 +0000

great!

By: Dagur

Dagur — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:44:18 +0000

It’s also worth noting that if you don’t have permission to edit /etc/inputrc you can at least create a .inputrc file in your home directory

By: Steve Kamerman

Steve Kamerman — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:38:05 +0000

WOW! Thanks – I just switched two dedicated servers from Fedora Core 4 to FreeBSD 6.1 and this was driving me crazy!!!

Here’s some more handy things to put in your /etc/profile

alias pico="nano -w" alias slocate="locate" alias cd..="cd .." export EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/nano export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc

By: kace

kace — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:31:53 +0000

Don't forget the 'ctl-v' trick though. (I mentioned it here.) I've found some of those codes are different on different keyboards/machines!

By: Dan Dascalescu

Dan Dascalescu — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:24:36 +0000

BTW, it’s
“\x7F”: backward-delete-char

Forget the backslash like BOK and your keyboard will be crippled off the ‘x’ key

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:05:00 +0000

PotatoSalad,

I am also not sure about freebsd 4.x. If you have the file just copy and use it :)

By: PotatoSalad

PotatoSalad — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:42:00 +0000

You can just copy /usr/compat/linux/etc/inputrc to /etc/inputrc and add “export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc” to /etc/profile. Not sure if everyone has the /usr/compat/linux/etc/inputrc file, though. I’m on FreeBSD 6.1

By: BOK

BOK — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:15:00 +0000

And another one:
“x7F”: backward-delete-char

PS Nice hints ‘n tips on your site!