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

Hi,

>>> Replacing soap-invoke by soap-invoke-async is not a problem. What I
>>> worry about is the UI. If you invoke debbugs-search, and you do
>>> something else in Emacs then, you need a proper way how to present the
>>> search results to the user w/o interrupting the work she is doing
>>> meanwhile.
>>
>> Indeed displaying the buffer asynchronously is too disruptive.
>>
>> The usual way to do that in Emacs is to immediately display the (empty)
>> result buffer and then maybe emit a `message` when this buffer has
>> been filled.
>
> Thanks for the explanation. I'll give it a try for debbugs-{gnu,org}-search.

I've assembled a proof-of-concept for debbugs-gnu-search, see appended
patch. It is on top of the ELPA git repository, but it might apply also
on the last distributed debbugs release (didn't check). Feedback appreciated.

Best regards, Michael.