bug#9047: 24.0.50; Paging in tabulated-list-mode

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

>>> I am using tabulated-list-mode in debbugs-gnu.el. Due to the amount of
>>> bugs, they must be presented on several pages (buffers). There are
>>> widgets which allow navigation between those pages.
>>
>> Was this something that debbugs-gnu had in earlier years?  I just get
>> the entire bug list presented to me, and it doesn't look like I have any
>> customisations in that area.
>
> In the beginning, debbugs-gnu retrieved only up to 500 bugs, and showed
> them. The user could ask for the next (up to 500) bugs afterwards, and
> so on.
>
> Today, debbugs-gnu knows how many bugs to retrieve at all. It raises
> several soap-invoke-async requests in parallel, every call limited to
> 500 bugs. The results of the calls will be merged and shown - thats what
> you see as long list.

Right; thanks.

But this does make the requested feature unnecessary in this use case,
doesn't it?  I mean, it does sound like something that'd be nice to
have, but in general we don't add stuff to Emacs until we have (at
least) one concrete use case.

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