How do I abort building the list for tab completion without losing the command?

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How to about longish search for Tab completion, but not lose the command? If just press Ctrl+C it will abort, but also not save the command to history.

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some_very_long_command_line --arg1 --arg2=555 --arg4 ... ... ... && <now Tab pressed>
(Now it works. I want to cancel before the following message)
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Just press backspace. The y/n request goes away and returns your cursor to the command line you were typing.

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How do I abort building the list for tab completion without losing the command?

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