user not informed of inputrc errors

In the man page history-preserve-point needs its default value listed: history-preserve-point (Off) P.S., let's say one just wants to turn it on for a couple of commands. The man page's Readline Initialization section makes it seem that the only chance of setting history-preserve-poi

local unset IFS behaves as if local IFS is set but empty

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i686 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/tmp/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='b