~/.inputrc file not sourcing correctly

For bash, this will reload now the currently defined mappings

bind -f  ~/.inputrc

The .inputrc file is not a file to be sourced. It should be taken into account automatically by bash or other software using the readline library. If this doesn't work, add a space after the colon, e.g.

"\e[1;5C": forward-word

(I've always seen a space in this config file).

The key bindings and ~/.inputrc file posted in question is for bash. For csh (or tcsh) use a file ~/.bindings and use following syntax.

bindkey '^[[1;5C' forward-word
bindkey '^[[1;5D' backward-word

Realized this after some googling.