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Problem.. your shell bindkeys aren't working and your sys admin would rather be looking at the secretary..

Root cause - using csh - which the dinosaurs *also* deprecated in favour of bash..

So, what's a man to do?

Easy - use the "bindkey" command (csh and tcsh only)

Example, you want ALT-F to do something... instead, it prints a weird character.

So, do :

$ bindkey <now-press-ALT-F-to-get-the-weird-character> forward-word

And you're done..

Same for things like Delete key, etc..

Not helpful enough :

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/insert-and-delete-key-returns-~-in-a-terminal-876401/

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/81256/tilde-when-clicking-del-key

Okay, what I've told you so far, gets you to a point - you'll find that, in an xterm session, you can do this and it'll work, but, when you try putting that in a .cshrc, you'll be in for a surprise..

bad key spec

territory :( And stackoverflow ain't much help. That's why you come here..

And the answer? Look up that funny character in the ASCII table - for example, if it's the small a with a  hat on top, take that code, get the octal representation (just go to a new tab and type 226 to octal and let google do the work :)

Then, in your .cshrc

bindkey "\342" forward-word

And you're through.  You're welcome!