Below is the screencast I created about improving the behaviour of the up/down arrows when recalling commands from the history in the bash shell.
The first screencast I recorded lasted over 6 minutes, so I removed extraneous examples. The second version lasted about 4 minutes, with lots of hhhhmmmms. This screencast shown below is the third and final version, lasting 2:59.
I used QuickTime Player to record the screen, and didn’t edit the video at all (other than trimming the beginning and the end).
The two lines to add to the $HOME/.inputrc shown in the screencast are:
"e[A":history-search-backward<br />
"e[B":history-search-forward
I hope you will find this tip useful!
Direct link to my screencast.