Complete list of options for .inputrc / readline

Question

I always knew you could switch between Vim and Emacs bindings for Bash by modifying .inputrc.

I'm now realizing there are actually a few different useful options I've decided to turn on including:

set bell-style none
set colored-stats On
set show-all-if-ambiguous On

The comments in /etc/inputrc on my system provide some guidance as to what is possible but not all the options are shown there.

I'm also trying man readline but all I get is a really short page describing the program.

Is there somewhere I can see all the options which can be turned on and off via .inputrc?

Answer 1

You may want to check the bind Bash builtin command.

Use help bind to see the different options.

In particular, you could check the output of

• bind -l : List names of functions.
• bind -p : List functions and bindings in a form that can be reused as input.
• bind -v : List variable names and values in a form that can be reused as input.

Answer 2

not certain it's complete, but the Archlinux page for readline(3) provides a fairly comprehensive list of options.

In addition to that there's the The GNU Readline Library documentation page which has a good deal on the syntax and commands. Again, hard to tell if it's comprehensive.

Answer 3

Here is the section of the Bash manual which describes the syntax of the Readline Init File. The init file is typically found at one of these locations:

• ~/.inputrc
• /etc/inputrc

The manual page above is part of a longer section on Command Line Editing.