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Re: interactive keybinding to abort all input?

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: interactive keybinding to abort all input?
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:20:54 -0700
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On Sep 15,  3:40pm, Greg Klanderman wrote:
}
} Seems like Control-C or Control-G should allow me to abort all input
} but it doesn't.  Should it?  Is there some way to abort all pending
} input to an interactive zsh?

The problem is, I believe, that the input is buffered up by xterm, so
what you need is a keystroke to cause *xterm* to discard all pending
input ...

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