What about disabling scroll lock (XOFF), to avoid people puzzling why the screen is frozen, having to find out about Ctrl-S and scroll lock and hitting Ctrl-Q to "unfreeze"?

I've been using this for years in my bashrc, but I don't know how portable it is:

# disable terminal locking
bind -r '\C-s'
stty -ixon

You might want to update your readme.md to suggest that OSX users upgrade to bash 4.x

This worked for me (obviously need homebrew installed first).
brew install bash;echo /usr/local/bin/bash|sudo tee -a /etc/shells;chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash

because I didn't remember what the strftime formats %F & %T were from memory. Perhaps just replacing "useful timestamp" with "standard RFC3339 timestamp".

and the readme might link to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339

The link to Bash Completion in the wiki is not found.
http://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org/

What is the recommended version of bash-completion?

• Mac OS X 10.11.3
• bash 4.3.42(1)-release (via brew install bash)

With bash-completion 1.3 (brew install bash-completion), I'm getting the following error:

-bash: shopt: dirspell: invalid shell option name

With bash-completion 2.1 (brew install bash-completion2), I'm getting the following errors:

-bash: shopt: dirspell: invalid shell option name
-bash: declare: -A: invalid option
declare: usage: declare [-afFirtx] [-p] [name[=value] ...]
-bash: complete: -D: invalid option
complete: usage: complete [-abcdefgjksuv] [-pr] [-o option] [-A action] [-G globpat] [-W wordlist] [-P prefix] [-S suffix] [-X filterpat] [-F function] [-C command] [name ...]

Just wondering why HISTIGNORE is exported while none of the other variables are.

My inclination is to say HISTIGNORE should not be exported since it seems bash specific and subprocesses won't use it.

I'll try to contribute in free-form style:

• set -o noclobber
• shopt -s checkwinsize
• stty -ixon
• PROMPT_DIRTRIM=2
• . /usr/lib/git-core/git-sh-prompt
• show the last command exit status message: PROMPT_COMMAND='_status=$?; [[ $_status == 0 ]] || echo -e "\e[4mExit status: $_status\e[m"; '$PROMPT_COMMAND

Just feedback: it would be great to have an option to log cmd history to syslog.

Some options:

https://sysadmin.compxtreme.ro/how-to-log-bash-history-with-syslog/
https://www.thegeekdiary.com/how-to-log-all-bash-history-commands-to-syslog-var-log-messages-in-centos-rhel/

Feel free to close this, just wanted to give some feedback.

I wanted to point out to you and perhaps anyone else to mathiasbynes dotfiles. Its a great community maintained set of configs. It has a much larger scope than your project, however it may be a great resource for you to draw on a "sensible" set of options. Or just a place to point people to when their suggestions fall outside "sensible" defaults.

In particular:

• input rc and exports lang for exceptionally relevant options (some of which you already have)
• bash prompt for shmancy coloring
• bash profile for advanced config structuring

I tend to use a separate .inputrc file but you can of course put these in bind commands like you're already doing from the bashrc... Here are two of my favorites:

# From http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/papers/bash_tips/
# Incremental searching with Up and Down
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward

e.g. so typing ssh <up arrow> searches through prior ssh commands rather than your entire command history.

When I scp to a host that I've added the sensible.bash to my ~/.bashrc, I see bind warnings.

/home/matt/bin/sensible.bash: line 28: bind: warning: line editing not enabled

I placed the binds in a TTY detection block like explained here: https://superuser.com/questions/892658/remote-ssh-commands-bash-bind-warning-line-editing-not-enabled

if [ -t 1 ]
then
  # standard output is a tty
  # do interactive initialization

  # Enable history expansion with space
  # E.g. typing !!<space> will replace the !! with your last command
  bind Space:magic-space
  ...
fi

Works well for this.

The-dead-link for bash completion. The package is said to be required but the link is dead. Maybe this is the proper updated link?

I love the idea of this project and appreciate the great defaults it gives me. Thank you.

To make the project even better I propose to split the defaults into "bash-sensible and "inputrc-sensible" for two reasons:

1. Avoid shadowing preferences set in ~/.inputrc (e.g. I have set show-all-if-ambiguous off in my .inputrc which is overwritten by bash-sensible. Thus, I need to set it a second time in .bashrc after loading bash-sensible.)
2. Make these great defaults also available to other programs that use readline (python REPL, etc).

"%F %T" looks like a decent timestamp format to me, but it's not an ISO8601 timestamp, that would be "%FT%T". Suggest you remove the reference to the standard there.