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By default when you use FreeBSD's BASH shell and you hit Home, Del, Insert keys all of them just prints ~. Here is the way to get rid of this problem:

1) Open bash global profile file:
vi /etc/profile

2) Add following line to it:
export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc

3) Save file

4) Open file /etc/inputrc and define key binding:
vi /etc/inputrc Here is my FreeBSD inputrc file.

5) Add key binding to it:
set meta-flag on
set input-meta on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on

"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
"\e[5~": beginning-of-history
"\e[6~": end-of-history
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[2~": quoted-insert
"\e[5C": forward-word
"\e[5D": backward-word


6) Save file

7) Test it by login into FreeBSD box