Hi. On Fedora Desktop 29,  using GNU bash, v. 4.4.23(1), in a GUI terminal emulator – gnome-terminal was used – under your home directory, create if not present file .inputrc a follow:

Press Return, then Ctrl D.

Copy the first two-lined command at once then paste it into a GUI text editor – Gedit was used –. .Log out from the terminal's session, then log in as same user. Results are:

Content of .inputrc,  which is expected to be still present, has been deleted.

Regards.