When I used bash, I had all of your settings on (had more, some others I can live without - these four I can't). I still have them in .inputrc for programs that

When I used bash, I had all of your settings on (had more, some others I can live without - these four I can't). I still have them in .inputrc for programs that use readline! I have since switched to zsh. Up/down to search history, in ~/.zshrc: [[ -n "${key[Up]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[Up]}" history-beginning-search-backward [[ -n "${key[Down]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[Down]}" history-beginning-search-forward Autocompletion in zsh is a different beast altogether :)