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Key Bindings

The key bindings and some other parameters of the Readline library can be customized by placing commands in an initialization file called $HOME/.inputrc. Key bindings have the form 

key-name: function-name
or 

"string": function-name
and options can be set with 

set option-name value
For example: 

# I prefer vi-style editing:
set editing-mode vi
# Edit using a single line:
set horizontal-scroll-mode On
# Rebind some keys:
Meta-h: backward-kill-word
"\C-u": universal-argument
"\C-x\C-r": re-read-init-file
Note that the default binding for TAB in Python is to insert a TAB instead of Readline's default filename completion function. If you insist, you can override this by putting 

TAB: complete
in your $HOME/.inputrc. (Of course, this makes it hard to type indented continuation lines...)


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