Give Emacs Psychic Completion Powers with prescient.el

[@kojoig]

This series are very helpful for the new emacs user like me. Thank you very much.

[@SystemCrafters]

Thanks David!

[@wakamenod9556]

0:23 - Intro 4:10 - Ivy 11:52 - Trying Prescient with other Ivy commands 13:31 - Excluding certain Ivy commands from sorting 14:46 - Disabling length-based sorting 15:29 - Changing the filtering method 21:32 - Going back to Ivy's filtering 22:21 - Getting the old highlighting back 23:22 - Company Mode 26:03 - Remembering history between sessions 29:13 - With all that said... 30:34 - Selectrum 31:08 - Outro

[@ex0stasis72]

I really, really appreciate you doing this big long series about Emacs. I’m in the middle of a 3rd attempt to get back into and stick with Emacs.

[@SystemCrafters]

Feel free to post questions if you run into trouble, or better yet, join the Discord server (link in description) and come chat with us! Glad you're trying to make it stick, Emacs is awesome :)

[@ex0stasis72]

@@SystemCrafters I think what I really needed was an actual coding project to work on with no time pressure. My college assignments I couldn't spare the time to also learn Emacs for. And without a project, tweaking endlessly with no tangible reward gives me burnout.

[@pushqrdx]

emacs has ` completion-styles '(flex)` built-in so for instance with selectrum you just enable that and you get fuzzy finding

[@BlackberryBoy]

Nice, looks good, I will give it a try.

[@SystemCrafters]

It's worth it just for making M-x more useful, in my opinion!

[@BlackberryBoy]

@@SystemCrafters yeah, by the way you have very good informative tutorials. I started using org-tree-slide after watching your video. Good work, thanks :)

[@SystemCrafters]

Thanks a lot! I've been meaning to use org-tree-slide for showing the notes of my videos but I seem to always forget :)

[@gtz999]

Thanks. Great video series. I have used it to create my first own emacs configuration. (Was using spacemacs before). Did you cover company mode before? If not then that would be nice.

[@SystemCrafters]

Awesome, congrats on making your own configuration! I talked about Company in Emacs From Scratch #8 about lsp-mode, but I haven't done a video focusing on it specifically. I'll consider it!

[@Dr_Dude]

"prescient" is read "preshant"? I think it is read pre-sci-ent (before it is known) Away from knit picking ;), I like your video a lot thanks for sharing!

[@SystemCrafters]

I pronounce it the way I've always heard it which seems consistent with what you can hear here: www.dictionary.com/browse/prescient

[@hulucius1479]

Without frequency threshold, or if you set it to 1, then all invocations of a command have same effect in history. This doesn't makes sense, because most recent command history are more likely to be relevant to your current workflow. With the decaying factor, more recent commands invocations takes higher weight, so the command history will prioritize in keeping most recent commands.

[@SystemCrafters]

This is true, good point!