a bunch of helpful stuff for terminal (and bash)

.inputrc

# allows autocomplete to be used with search history, so typing git c and then up arrow would 
# bring up your history options that started with git c . WAAAAY faster.
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward
"\e[1;9D": backward-word
"\e[1;9C": forward-word

# non-case-sensative autocomplete,
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
# show all options if you hit tab and there are a bunch of options (without an error signal)
set completion-ignore-case on

# mostly self explanitory 
$if bash
    set bell-style visible
    set editing-mode emacs
    set mark-directories On
    set mark-modified-lines On
    set show-all-if-ambiguous On
$endif

(if you don't use bash, comment out line 17 or set it to vim or whatever.)

vim is superior ;)