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 [ Disclaimer: I longer use Prescient, so this might be outdated.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