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Re: interactive keybinding to abort all input?

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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: interactive keybinding to abort all input?
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:21:24 +0400
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On Tuesday 15 of September 2009 23:40:18 Greg Klanderman wrote:
> I seem to have some problem with copying and pasting in X; sometimes
> copying from emacs to my shell window results in some previous
> selection getting pasted, and when that's several pages of code, it
>  is really a pain waiting minutes for zsh to finish trying to
>  interpret it.
> 
> 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?
>

I am not sure this is zsh fault. It is entirely possible that X terminal 
is busy processing selection and starts to act on ^C only *after* entire 
buffer has been pushed to child.

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