From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding the `prescient` packages to NonGNU ELPA? Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:50:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <16193c73-ab80-04c9-558f-d5e6142f38f3@protonmail.com> <871qpydllo.fsf@posteo.net> <87wn7pljl3.fsf@posteo.net> <871qpv14et.fsf@disroot.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36970"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: akib@disroot.org, philipk@posteo.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: okamsn@protonmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 26 01:51:29 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oyjPk-0009MV-MO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 01:51:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyjPG-0005wM-Bj; Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:50:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyjPF-0005wE-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:50:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyjPD-0005Hd-VQ; Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:50:55 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=A7rOZZiCemhS/adkqBu+eJr9rzqp7qKFsZ97eyD2cEQ=; b=YcIrBj5DrY39 CyShz7kjsf5GlvJUmBD5OOlRDsxoM+k1deNvhpBA8tRF+waDCRJdQggUrvGcXLkECtinRgyIi0DKU p2GEUL0OKFoZJxjfPMeaCU2cv7mElbKHb0Zo2tOrT68y/pmCChYM0aQrCzt+Xs67P7FAE6hfV4pC0 ggvpIRhbB55F7ErWutsoJrNzkqRXIqWj0N4TEJVnnUWPV+qUeVla217IWoFnM+yVjsbrE6x3eq5sh 03flhVBjLjRKxRqav38qutHt0A4mrBWNW5dafz5GGwGywoXfGrU5sb5nbH0Rv+Ktmkx69zsCZd81k Oc3Qha+7jdgXZzo5aIBKXQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyjPD-0004gR-Ks; Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:50:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: (okamsn@protonmail.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:300538 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Prescient is sorting and filter packages for completion UIs. It sorts > > candidates using frecency (frequency and recency). For example, if you > > select 'grep' in your M-x prompt using one of the supported UIs, 'grep' > > will be placed earlier among the candidates next time. If you use > > another supported auto-completion UI like Company or Corfu, Prescient > > will use the data it gathered from other UIs to sort the candidates. > > > > It does the sorting and filtering with some simple algorithms, so I > > don't think it has any implications. Thanks. Now everyone reading the list can see what features you're proposing to add. I don't have any opinions about them myself. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)