arrow keys on VT?

[nirno]

On my system (Arch Linux (rolling), GNU Emacs 26.3), smartrep works fine on X, but not so well on the console or on XFCE4 terminal (with -nw), both with and without -Q.

I have configured smartrep like this:

(require 'smartrep)
(smartrep-define-key global-map "C-x"
                     '(("{"        . shrink-window-horizontally)
                       ("}"        . enlarge-window-horizontally)
                       ("<left>"   . previous-buffer)
                       ("<right>"  . next-buffer)))

Of these bindings, C-x { and C-x } work fine on VT too, but not C-x <left> and C-x <right>: when I hit e.g. C-x <left>, it switches (correctly) to the previous buffer and paints the mode line green, but when I hit <left> once more, it just moves the cursor, like it did before loading smartrep; and analogically for C-x <right>.

When I try to use <prior> and <next> instead of <left> and <right>, the behavior is similar, but C-p and C-n work correctly.

What's going on?