How to move around in bash - keybindings?

[decuser]

In the BASH(1) manpage, the keybindings are described. However, these don't seem to be what FreeBSD is using. In particular, it shows:

forward-word (M-f)
Move forward to the end of the next word. Words are composed of
alphanumeric characters (letters and digits).
backward-word (M-b)
Move back to the start of the current or previous word. Words
are composed of alphanumeric characters (letters and digits).

Well, M-f works on the command line, but it looks like M-b deletes the previous word, I just wanna move back a word and leave the command line intact like forward-word does. Other keybindings also seem different. I looked for inputrc on the system, but the only instance of this file is - /usr/local/share/doc/bash-completion/inputrc.

Where can I find the actual keybindings that are used by the active shell?

 

[decuser]

I am responding to the M-b not working part of the question here, for posterity. I was connecting to the FreeBSD machine via SSH from a MacBook. In testing how it worked on the Mac, I noticed that M-f and M-b, both produced funky characters on the Terminal - ƒ and ∫, respectively. After a bit of research, and remembrance, I figured out that the Terminal settings have a switch for "Use Option as Meta key." Now, M-f and M-b both work in Terminal and in the SSH session with FreeBSD. The question of where to find the active keybindings is still open .

 

[SirDice]

The question of where to find the active keybindings is still open

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On FreeBSD these are pretty much default. You can copy that /usr/local/share/doc/bash-completion/inputrc (gets installed by shells/bash-completion) to ~/.inputrc if you want. Or read pkg info -D bash-completion. Some ports install bash completion scripts, those can be found in /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/.