Setting the terminal default editing mode

I had the unexpected surprise after I installed 64-bit Ubuntu, to discover that the terminal wasn't set to Emacs editing mode by default. It's not that I'm a big lover of Emacs (I use Vim), but I've gotten used to the Emacs key bindings in the terminal. After some searching in ~/.bashrc and /etc/bash.bashrc, I found that the "problem" came from ~/.inputrc. The first line of that file was 'set editing-mode vi', so I commented it and all was well again.