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.