I have a line in my .bashrc the following line:

bind '"e[A": history-search-backward'

that causes that when I write "abc" to command prompt and press up arrow, bash searches in history only for commands that start with "abc". All is fine until I run top (and maybe some other applications that I am not sure about, with top, I am sure) when this behaviour is reversed to normal search. However, when I run bind '"e[A": history-search-backward'
in terminal, nothing changes and I have to kill and restart the terminal to get the old behaviour back. Is there a way to reverse it (or prevent it from happening?) This happens in gnome-terminal and xterm in Unity and Gnome Shell. tty seems to be not affected.

My -bashrc on top of stok ubuntu .bashrc is this:

bind '"e[A": history-search-backward'

bind '"e[B": history-search-forward'

# that behaviour is for pageup and pagedown

bind '"e[5~": previous-history'

bind '"e[6~": next-history'



# show possibilities if tab ambigious

set show-all-if-ambiguous on

# ignore case when completing, lets see how it works

set completion-ignore-case on





shopt -s cdspell

HISTSIZE=10000

HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

HISTFILESIZE=10001

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h/%d - %H:%M:%S "

shopt -s histappend

PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND"