From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: tog log & got-read-pack on the fly:
To: Martin Pieuchot <mpi@openbsd.org>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:25:00 +0200

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 11:53:12AM +0200, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> I've the openbsd git tree in /home/os/openbsd and I do
> 
> cd /home/os/openbsd/sys && tog log -c master .
> 
> Then I search for a weird pattern that doesn't match anything,  at that
> moment the top bar says:
> 
> commit ........................................ /sys [1/XXX] searching...
> 
> And count until reaching the end commit:
> 
> commit d4ce8ef6e9b9ee3e216ced681f963a2ce288d25a /sys [1/78483] master, origin/ma
> 
> Then I can finally move around.

Oh, I see now. You expect to be controlling the cursor while searching in
the background! No, that doesn't work yet because the search feature uses
this same cursor for marking matches. We would need to implement another
way of marking matches before search and other activities which move the
cursor could work in parallel.