As an emacs user I map "C-p" "C-n" for history search in bash In .inputrc "\C-p": history-search-backward "\C-n": history-search-forward Also I found the

As an emacs user I map "C-p" "C-n" for history search in bash In .inputrc "\C-p": history-search-backward "\C-n": history-search-forward Also I found the following settings to be very useful: # List the possible completions when Tab is pressed set show-all-if-ambiguous on #tab complete without needing to get the case right set completion-ignore-case on