Using ncurses-5.4-1

The newer ncurses seemed to change the behavior of my terminal.  It
was suggested to change my TERM from xterm to gnome-rh90. This brought
back syntax highlighting however it appears that the terminal
(gnome-terminal, xterm) does not respond to readline cmds like:

[ in bash ]
Clear screen ( <ctrl> l )  DOES NOT WORK
BOL          ( <ctrl> a )  WORKS
EOL          ( <ctrl> e )  WORKS
DELWORD      ( <ctrl> w )  WORKS
DEL          ( <ctrl> U )  WORKS
PASTE        ( <ctrl> y )  WORKS
...so only clear screen doesn't work (as far as the readline cmds I'm
familiar with)

[ in vim ]
press the [Home] key    - DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE
press the [End] key     - DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE