apparently I had partially copied this around, but not put it in here

Then I got to go crazy trying to figure out why C-w didn't work on one
computer, despite identical bash configs.

.inputrc

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/gdb/readline-init-file.html
+
+# This file controls the behaviour of line input editing for
+# programs that use the GNU Readline library.  Existing
+# programs include FTP, Bash, and GDB.
+#
+# You can re-read the inputrc file with C-x C-r.
+# Lines beginning with '#' are comments.
+#
+# First, include any systemwide bindings and variable
+# assignments from /etc/Inputrc
+$include /etc/inputrc
+
+# This atleast allows bash bind to make keys do what I want
+set bind-tty-special-chars Off
+
+# I can not get these to work.  It is crazy.
+# The whole reason I have this file is to switch backward-kill-work behavior
+#Meta-Rubout: unix-word-rubout
+#"\M-w": backward-kill-word 
+

Makefile

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ emacs:
 
 bash:
 	@echo $@
+	cp -a .inputrc ~
 	cp -a .bash_custom ~
 	@if  ! `grep -q bash_custom  ~/.bashrc`; then \
 	    echo "" >> ~/.bashrc; \