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  • Try disabling the programmable completion with shopt -u progcomp. Commented May 11, 2019 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 Commented May 11, 2019 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. Commented May 18, 2019 at 3:39