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No matter what I try I can't get bash to load my ~/.inputrc file. The most minimal example I have tested is getting rid of my ~/.bashrc and then having a single line in my ~/.inputrc with
set completion-ignore-case on
Even so, I can't tab complete without case sensitivity.
If I simply do bind -f ~/.inputrc, then the setting is loaded.
Am I missing something? Isn't it supposed to be loaded automatically? I am using Fedora with bash 4.4.23 and readline 7.0.
Bash uses the readline library to do interactive input processing. This library is responsible for reading the initialization file. By default this is ~/.inputrc, but an INPUTRC environment variable provides an override.
So if the ~/.inputrc file is not processed, check for a INPUTRC variable.
The next thing to check is that the lines being added are not within a conditional.
shopt -u progcomp. – mosvy May 11 '19 at 5:44INPUTRCto~/.config/inputrc(trying to declutter myHOMEdirectory) but somehow forgot about that and had fallen back to editing~/.inputrc. – ws_e_c421 May 18 '19 at 3:39