It appears that bash cannot bind ctrl-u either by using the "bind" command, or by reading .inputrc at startup.
This bind command does not work: $ bind '"\C-u": history-search-backward' This bind command does work: $ bind '"\C-u": "foo"' The following inputrc line does not work, even if the inputrc is explicitly read via 'bind -f': "\C-u": history-search-backward Other lines in the same inputrc do work. Interestingly, re-read-init-file (ctrl-x, ctrl-r by default) will successfully bind Ctrl-U as defined in the inputrc. Here's my bash version information: $ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
