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From: okamsn@protonmail.com
To: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>,
	monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, stefankangas@gmail.com,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding the `prescient` packages to NonGNU ELPA?
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 23:12:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e659c64c-bc5c-8292-31bd-4311c1dde25a@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qpv14et.fsf@disroot.org>

On 2022-11-22 13:53 UTC, Akib Azmain Turja wrote:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> [[[ 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. ]]]
>>
>> People are talking about something called "prescient".  What is it?
>> What jobs does it do?  Is there a drawback in these jobs?  If those
>> topics were discussed, I did not see it.  But they are the most important
>> questions about that something,
>>
>> The discussion is focusing on practical issues of merging them, but we
>> should also think about whether the presence of this facility has any
>> drawbacks.
>>
>> Perhaps "prescient" is just "more of the same," convenient features
>> with no deep implications.  Let's have a discussion of what it does,
>> so we can see whether that is true or not.
>
> 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.
>
> [ Disclaimer: I longer use Prescient, so this might be outdated. ]
>

This description is accurate.




  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-23 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-20  3:27 Adding the `prescient` packages to NonGNU ELPA? Okamsn
2022-11-20  9:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-20 11:23   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-11-20 15:19     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-20 15:41       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-21 21:17         ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-22 13:53           ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-11-23 23:12             ` okamsn [this message]
2022-11-26  0:50               ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-20 17:10   ` Visuwesh
2022-11-20 18:39     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-16  9:41     ` North Year
2022-12-16 19:25       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-17  3:28         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-17  9:17           ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-17 15:52             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-17 16:07               ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-17 16:24                 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-17 18:01                   ` Okamsn
2022-12-17 18:08                     ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-17 18:39                     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-20  1:32                       ` Okamsn
2022-12-20  3:10                         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-20 17:42   ` Okamsn
2022-12-05  0:27     ` Okamsn
2022-12-05 15:21       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-09  3:58         ` Okamsn
2022-12-09 15:08           ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-09 15:27             ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-10  4:10             ` Richard Kim
2022-12-10 15:12               ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-10 16:38                 ` Richard Kim
2022-12-10 17:44                   ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-05 17:21       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-16  2:04         ` Okamsn
2022-12-16 19:26           ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-11-22 15:41   ` Jonas Bernoulli
2022-11-22 21:09     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-23  9:56       ` Jonas Bernoulli
2022-11-23 12:33         ` Stefan Monnier

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