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    > Perhaps it should kill the input when the input follows a prompt
    > but not otherwise.  What do you think of that idea?

    That would make sense, but I'm not sure how possible it is to do a good
    job -- the code doesn't ever know when you're seeing a real prompt or
    not, just that there's some non-newline-terminated output.

Comint has ways of recognizing prompts.  It has to have them.