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Authored by: kholburn on Sep 05, '07 02:45:21AM
You can also put these in /etc/inputrc and they will be read by all accounts. Here are the settings I always add:

set bell-style none
#set prefer-visible-bell
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
control-p: history-search-backward
control-n: history-search-forward
"\e[3~": delete-char
The search history commands are extremely useful. I have been thinking of binding these to up arrow and down arrow.

You type some of a command and control-p takes you to the previous commands that statrted with that string.

Also get a good copy of bash_completion. It really makes a difference.

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Authored by: delight1 on Sep 05, '07 09:55:29AM

i tried using a system wide inputrc (without restarting the computer, but with new term sessions), and it didn't work T_T



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