Re: Adding the `prescient` packages to NonGNU ELPA?

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On 2022-11-22 13:53 UTC, Akib Azmain Turja wrote:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
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>>
>> 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 [ Disclaimer: I longer use Prescient, so this might be outdated.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.