order helm result as frequency of usage

[Peng Li]

Hi,

is it possible to make the helm completion result list as their frequency of usage. I know ido has this feature.
for example,
in ido,  if I run M-x eshell, then restart emacs and input M-x, the first  candidates in the completion list is eshell. I can just input RET to choose this one. I think this is very useful

So, does helm also have this feature?

Thanks,
Peng

[Peng Li]

Just found this
https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/431
Seems helm cannot persist the command history, so after restart, the command history is gone.
 but we can use session.el to do solve the issue

[Chunyang Xu]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 1:30 AM, Peng Li <seu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to make the helm completion result list as their frequency of
> usage. I know ido has this feature.
> for example,
> in ido, if I run M-x eshell, then restart emacs and input M-x, the first
> candidates in the completion list is eshell. I can just input RET to choose
> this one. I think this is very useful

Try to store the value of `extended-command-history' across session, I
am using the built-in savehist and It works for me

(use-package savehist
:init (savehist-mode)
:config
(setq history-length 1000
history-delete-duplicates t
savehist-additional-variables '(extended-command-history)))

just add extended-command-history to savehist-additional-variables and
enable savehist-mode should be enough, I think.


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Chunyang Xu

> So, does helm also have this feature?
>
> Thanks,
> Peng
>

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[Peng Li]

Thanks Chuyang,
Yes, just tried your config, it also can fix the issue. thanks