[computerfriend]

The drawback is that if you think your session is hanging and want to bail with ~., you have to press enter, which might actually make it to the server and execute something.

[bandie91]

many get used to Ctrl-U, Return, ~, period keystroke sequence for this.

[aragilar]

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).