On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 07:36:15PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> This is a patch I came up with in order to solve the immediate usability
> issue. It allows for cancellation with backspace in case the user triggers
> the load operation by accident.
> 

The above patch has been committed.

As a follow-up change,I propose to block keys other than backspace in
the log view's input handler while commits are loading. Tracey found
that typing Ctrl-l or B would make the view's state somewhat inconsistent
and break tog's expected behaviour. Since other keys als have side effects
it should be better to block them for now. We could still enable other keys
on a case-by-case basis in the future, once they are known to work fine.

ok?

diff 751490770ba7a1fe3669a4a604d7412ba8cba776 /home/stsp/src/got
blob - 06ff7cdc6e39eab3ef6dd7f651bd12066ef3b237
file + tog/tog.c
--- tog/tog.c
+++ tog/tog.c
@@ -2389,16 +2389,20 @@ input_log_view(struct tog_view **new_view, struct tog_
 	struct tog_view *ref_view = NULL;
 	int begin_x = 0;
 
-	switch (ch) {
-	case ERR: /* no user input from wgetch() */
-		if (s->thread_args.load_all && s->thread_args.log_complete) {
+	if (s->thread_args.load_all) {
+		if (ch == KEY_BACKSPACE)
 			s->thread_args.load_all = 0;
+		else if (s->thread_args.log_complete) {
+			s->thread_args.load_all = 0;
 			log_scroll_down(view, s->commits.ncommits);
 			s->selected = MIN(view->nlines - 2,
 			    s->commits.ncommits - 1);
 			select_commit(s);
 		}
-		break;
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	switch (ch) {
 	case 'q':
 		s->quit = 1;
 		break;
@@ -2542,11 +2546,6 @@ input_log_view(struct tog_view **new_view, struct tog_
 	case KEY_BACKSPACE:
 	case CTRL('l'):
 	case 'B':
-		if (s->thread_args.load_all) {
-			if (ch == KEY_BACKSPACE)
-				s->thread_args.load_all = 0;
-			break;
-		}
 		if (ch == KEY_BACKSPACE &&
 		    got_path_is_root_dir(s->in_repo_path))
 			break;