many get used to Ctrl-U, Return, ~, period keystroke sequence for this.
For those of us in today's 10000, Ctrl-U is the default readline shortcut for unix-line-discard (see https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Commands-... and https://susam.net/unix-line-discard.html).
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For those of us in today's 10000, Ctrl-U is the default readline shortcut for unix-line-discard (see https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Commands-... and https://susam.net/unix-line-discard.html).