Copy and set-mark in Bash as in Emacs?

I would like to be able to copy and paste text in the command line in Bash using the same keyboard bindings that Emacs uses by default (i.e. using C-space for set-mark, M-w to copy text, C-y, M-y to paste it, etc.). The GNU Bash documentation says that Bash comes with some of these key bindings set up by default. For example, yanking (C-y) works by default on my terminal. However, I can't get the set-mark and copy commands to work, and they don't seem to be bound to any keys by default. Usually, the way a user can define her own key bindings is to add them to .inputrc. So I looked and found the following bash functions in the documentation that I presume can help me define the Emacs-like behavior that I want (i.e. set-mark with C-space and copy with M-w). copy-region-as-kill () > Copy the text in the region to the > kill buffer, so it can be yanked right > away. By default, this command is > unbound. and set-mark (C-@) > Set the mark to the point. If a > numeric argument is supplied, the mark > is set to that position. If I understand correctly, the above means that copy-region-as-kill is not bound to any keyboard sequence by default, while set-mark is bound to C-@ by default. I tried C-@ on my terminal, but I don't think it runs set-mark because I don't see any text highlighted when I move my cursor. In any case, I tried adding keyboard bindings (M-w and C- ) to the functions copy-region-as-kill and set-mark above in my .inputrc and then reloading it with C-x C-r, but this didn't work. I know that my other entries in .inputrc work because I have other user-defined keybindings defined in it. Is there anything I am doing wrong? Am I missing anything?