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After a *lot* of googling I eventually found the answer. If you create a ~/.inputrc then /etc/inputrc is no longer read unless you include a reference to it in ~/.inputrc. That is why my delete key stopped working as I wanted it to. The solution is this new improved ~/.inputrc: # Begin ~/.inputrc # By default up/down are bound to previous-history # and next-history respectively. The following does the # same but gives the extra functionality where if you # type any text (or more generally if there is any text # between the start of the line and the cursor), # the subset of the history starting with that text # is searched. "\e[B": history-search-forward "\e[A": history-search-backward # Include system wide settings which are ignored # by default if one has their own .inputrc $include /etc/inputrc