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I quite like the option to auto-complete terminal commands from history, using keyboard arrows (as explained here, or here).

Yet, the configuration in .inputrc does not affect the terminal in Guake. How can I implement this same option in Guake? All the configuration files that Guake generates (found in ~/.gconf/apps/guake/) are in the .xml format. For example, this is the list of the "general config" file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
    <entry name="window_ontop" mtime="1480435601" type="bool" value="false"/>
    <entry name="compat_delete" mtime="1480435601" type="string">
        <stringvalue>delete-sequence</stringvalue>
    </entry>
    <entry name="compat_backspace" mtime="1480435601" type="string">
        <stringvalue>ascii-delete</stringvalue>
    </entry>
    <entry name="use_palette_font_and_background_color" mtime="1480435601" type="bool" value="true"/>
    <entry name="use_default_font" mtime="1480435601" type="bool" value="true"/>
    <entry name="scroll_keystroke" mtime="1480435601" type="bool" value="true"/>
    <entry name="history_size" mtime="1480435601" type="int" value="1024"/>
    <entry name="use_scrollbar" mtime="1480435601" type="bool" value="true"/>
    <entry name="mouse_display" mtime="1480435601" type="bool" value="true"/>
    <entry name="display_n" mtime="1480435601" type="int" value="0"/>
    <entry name="quick_open_command_line" mtime="1480435601" type="string">
        <stringvalue>gedit %(file_path)s</stringvalue>
    </entry>
    <entry name="window_tabbar" mtime="1480435601" type="bool" value="true"/>
    <entry name="window_halignment" mtime="1480435601" type="int" value="0"/>
    <entry name="window_width_f" mtime="1480435601" type="float" value="100"/>
    <entry name="window_width" mtime="1480435601" type="int" value="100"/>
    <entry name="window_losefocus" mtime="1480435603" type="bool" value="true"/>
    <entry name="prompt_on_close_tab" mtime="1480435601" type="int" value="0"/>
    <entry name="prompt_on_quit" mtime="1480435601" type="bool" value="true"/>
    <entry name="use_popup" mtime="1480433461" type="bool" value="false"/>
    <entry name="use_trayicon" mtime="1480433454" type="bool" value="false"/>
</gconf>

I have no idea how to translate the instruction given in the two links to xml.

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As "steeldriver" suggested, the problem is that the shell interpreter used by the embedded Guake terminal was not set up as "bash" (which is the one that is affected by .inputrc. As "AlexP" mentioned, Guake is simply displaying (emulating) a terminal, and changes to "bash" should be global across all emulators.

Thus, to enable history search in Guake, I simply had to change the shell used in Guake. This is done in Preferences, under the "Shell" tab:

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A related answer (albeit not for Guake) can be found here.

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