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  • You have them (so do I), but do they work? In the non-GUI console? (That would be amazing.) Commented Jan 3, 2017 at 10:21
  • @argle have you tried it yourself? Commented Jan 3, 2017 at 10:30
  • @MrShunz Just test them in the kernel console and you'll understand what I mean. Commented Jan 9, 2017 at 6:57
  • @argle What i meant is that you asked if they work, as if you haven't tried them yourself. That said, I don't have a debian machine at hand, but on my ubuntu system they don't work on tty console (same /etc/inputrc though). Commented Jan 9, 2017 at 9:40
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    Thanks for this useful answer @xhienne. A few more infos for further readers: The key code for left/right might be 113/114 on some systems. Only some OS-es seem to be off by 8. You can show keycodes with xev, find possible keysyms with sudo dumpkeys -l and keycodes in use with xmodmap -pke and print input codes emacs style (inputrc) with ctrl+v keypress. Commented Apr 13, 2021 at 21:50