Patch for tmux 1.6: Stop searching forward at the end of the buffer.

tmux-Stop-searching-forward-at-the-end-of-the-buffer.patch

From 6bccc3fc7362967ea7d4c296a22793f7f3a2c6d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Przemyslaw Pawelczyk <przemoc@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:51:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Stop searching forward at the end of the buffer.

Requested-by: Jacobo de Vera <devel@jacobodevera.com>
---
 window-copy.c |   11 ++---------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/window-copy.c b/window-copy.c
index 4f25f3f..76292d3 100644
--- a/window-copy.c
+++ b/window-copy.c
@@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ window_copy_search_down(struct window_pane *wp, const char *searchstr)
 	struct grid_cell	 	 gc;
 	size_t				 searchlen;
 	u_int				 i, first, fx, fy, px;
-	int				 utf8flag, n, wrapped;
+	int				 utf8flag, n;
 
 	if (*searchstr == '\0')
 		return;
@@ -1064,9 +1064,8 @@ window_copy_search_down(struct window_pane *wp, const char *searchstr)
 		fy++;
 	} else
 		fx++;
-	n = wrapped = 0;
+	n = 0;
 
-retry:
 	sgd = ss.grid;
 	for (i = fy + 1; i < gd->hsize + gd->sy; i++) {
 		first = 0;
@@ -1078,12 +1077,6 @@ retry:
 			break;
 		}
 	}
-	if (!n && !wrapped) {
-		fx = 0;
-		fy = 0;
-		wrapped = 1;
-		goto retry;
-	}
 
 	screen_free(&ss);
 }
-- 
1.7.9

Just for the record: I created this patch as an answer to question on Unix.SX by Jacobo de Vera. He made the change configurable and sent the new patch to tmux-users ML. It went into svn repo and is available since version 1.7. Nowadays you can find the commit in git repo: tmux/tmux@95f48a2.