Use prescient.el

emacs/.emacs.d/init.org

@@ -5122,6 +5122,22 @@ An alternative minibuffer completion framework:
     (setq xref-show-xrefs-function #'ivy-xref-show-xrefs))
 #+END_SRC
 
+[[https://github.com/raxod502/prescient.el][Prescient.el]] adds sorting and filtering to completion candidates:
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp
+  (use-package prescient)
+
+  (use-package ivy-prescient
+    :after (prescient ivy)
+    :config
+    (ivy-prescient-mode)
+    (prescient-persist-mode)
+    :custom
+    (ivy-prescient-enable-filtering nil)
+    (ivy-prescient-sort-commands '(:not swiper
+                                        swiper-isearch
+                                        counsel-imenu
+                                        counsel-M-x)))
+#+end_src
 
 * graphviz
 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp