Well, the impact of .inputrc is going to hit anything else linked with it. Your Postgres psql client will switch to vi mode, which might not be what you intend

Well, the impact of .inputrc is going to hit anything else linked with it. Your Postgres psql client will switch to vi mode, which might not be what you intended. And if a day comes that dash gets linked to libedit on Debian/Ubuntu, only the POSIX standard command will have the desired effect.