ESC & Meta/Alt key not working in bash terminal

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I’m surprised I haven’t seen this mentioned already. I’m ssh’ing into my Omnia and noticing that neither the ESC key, nor the Meta/Alt key are working in the bash terminal. So I can’t type “ESC b” to go back a word, or “Alt-f” to go forward a word. I’m using iTerm from my Mac, and when I go into nano, and type “ESC f” I get the following message: “Unbound key: M-F” which makes me think the problem is only in bash.

Am I the only one seeing this? I can’t find any other messages on this forum regarding this issue.

I just want to be able to quickly maneuver, and this is definitely slowing me down.

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Are you sure you are using bash? Default is ash

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It works for me but I had to override my $TERM as it was not recognized. It is screen-256color, I have set it to screen.