The Missing Readline Primer

Hit return to get a fresh command line, and exit your non-readline-enabled bash shell:

There are a great many shortcuts like autocomplete available to you if readline is enabled. you should get output similar to this:

You can see on the last four lines ( ) there is a table of key bindings that your terminal will pick up before readline sees them. If you encounter a problem where the terminal options seem to catch a shortcut key binding before it gets to readline, then you can use the program to unset that binding.

Source: zwischenzugs.com