Fix Bash Keybindings for Home, End and other keys
Log into a linux box often and find that Home, End, Delete or Ctrl+Arrow keys don’t work? Well here’s the fix. Place the following in your ~/.inputrc file
“\e[7~”: beginning-of-line #home
“\e[8~”: end-of-line #end
“\e[3~”: delete-char #delete
“\eOd”: backward-word #ctl-leftarrow
“\eOc”: forward-word #ctl-rightarrow
And then exit bash and reopen a new bash session.
Secondly, if you’re on a machine with multiple (command-line) users, then it makes little sense for everyone to have to create the same “~/.inputrc” file. You need only create one file with those readline settings in it, I suggest “/usr/local/etc/inputrc“, and then point everyone to it by putting this line into “/etc/profile“:
export INPUTRC=’/usr/local/etc/inputrc’
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