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 [ Disclaimer: I longer use Prescient, so this might be outdated.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.
next prev parent 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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