By adding something like this in your .inputrc: $if MYSQL "\033OP": "use information_schema; show tables;\n" "\033OQ": "use test;\n" "\033OR": "select * from " "\033OS": "show columns from " "\033[15~": "\033[17~": "\033[18~": "\033[19~": "\033[20~": "\033[21~": "\033[23~": "\033[24~": $endif you may have F1-F12 keys utilized. Different terminals have different codes (.inputrc doesn't support capability names unfortunately), so you'll have to find out your own codes via tack utiity. With strong will and enough patience it is possible to add Ctrl+, Alt+, Shift+ and their combinations as well. This works only with MDEV-17609 patch. -- All the best, Aleksey Midenkov @midenok