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^G reentry should flush tty input

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From: Paul Rubin
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 11:25
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On the losing system that I am forced to use, sometimes my tty
hangs for a minute or so at a time for no reason.  If I happen
to be waiting for an emacs command to finish when this occurs,
I can't tell whether it is my tty or the emacs command that
is losing.  My natural response is to hit ^G, and when nothing
happens, to hit ^G a few dozen more times.  When the tty
finally comes back to life, Emacs is suspended and when I
fg it it response "abort (and dump core)?" etc. as it should.
Trouble is, the remaining dozens of ^G's are still buffered,
so on restarting Emacs immediately suspends itself again
and I have to restart it over and over.  I hope that some
reasonable fix can be installed for this sometime.


I know that my hitting ^G so many times is not intelligent behavior,
but it is natural, and a good interface is supposed to make natural
actions produce reasonable results.
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