Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote: > Chris Down wrote: > > Well, you can do this with PROMPT_COMMAND='sleep 1'. I don't see the > > need for another internal variable to do this. > > How would that work to avoid filling the prompt with the paste buffer > when I fat finger and paste a whole email to the prompt? It will just > slow down the process, but not cancel it.
It would give you plenty of time to hit Control-C to interrupt it. Try it and you will see. Bob