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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.

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  • Try disabling the programmable completion with shopt -u progcomp. – mosvy May 11 at 5:44
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    Do you have an INPUTRC environment variable set? If you do it would attempt to use the filename specified rather than taking the default. git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/tree/bind.c#n920 – icarus May 11 at 5:53
  • @icarus You nailed it! I'll accept your answer if you want to make it a full one. I had set INPUTRC to ~/.config/inputrc (trying to declutter my HOME directory) but somehow forgot about that and had fallen back to editing ~/.inputrc. – ws_e_c421 May 18 at 3:39
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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.

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