I do enjoy this aspect about terminals - how you can type a few lines with enters while a long running process is executing. However, I wish there was a way to

I do enjoy this aspect about terminals - how you can type a few lines with enters while a long running process is executing. However, I wish there was a way to ignore (or cache?) this buffered input if the process exits with an error or something else of the sort. Does this exist? It can quickly get dangerous otherwise!