Fwiw, in Bash, alt-shift-3 will prepend the current command with # and start a new command.
More generally, it's alt-#. On an ISO (e.g. UK) keyboard layout, shift-3 isn't a hash.
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More generally, it's alt-#. On an ISO (e.g. UK) keyboard layout, shift-3 isn't a hash.