FreeBSD console broken?

Question

It seems my FreeBSD console is misconfigured (i guess). I cannot use home or end buttons in command line (it prints ~), and in vi left arrow is switching me from edit to command mode, which makes editing a little difficult. How can I know what's wrong and fix it?

I'm not a root, by the way, I just hope it's something with my profile or bash configuration.

Shell version: GNU bash, version 4.0.35(0)-release (i386-portbld-freebsd8.0)

UPD: fixed home and end keys in console by creating ~/.inputrc and pasting this:

"\e[3~": delete-char
# this is actually equivalent to "\C-?": delete-char
# VT
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
# kvt
"\e[H":beginning-of-line
"\e[F":end-of-line
# rxvt and konsole (i.e. the KDE-app...)
"\e[7~":beginning-of-line
"\e[8~":end-of-line
"\e[1;5C": forward-word     # Ctrl+right  => forward word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word    # Ctrl+left   => backward word

(solution from here)

Still, left arrow in vi bothers me, and I cannot install vim on the machine (maybe it's some vi quirk, idk).

Answer 1

You may find you can fix it all by doing something like:

TERM=xterm

...in your .profile.

Answer 2

Fixed by creating .inputrc file (see question update).