Feature request: sort matches by stats/‘frecency’

[khaeru]

Prior to finding Atuin, I started using zoxide as a replacement for cd.

One nice feature of zoxide that AFAICT¹ is not yet in Atuin is to sort results by incorporating usage stats. Zoxide uses the term ‘frecency’ (‘frequency’ + ‘recency’) for an algorithm that computes a score that incorporates (a) how many times a particular item has been accessed and (b) when the most recent access is.

To give an example, if I type gpf and then invoke the Atuin keybinding, I see something like:

  4 54ms   4d ago git restore --staged setup.cfg
  3 1s     3d ago git pull --ff
  2 2s    11m ago git push --force
  1 3ms    2d ago grep _dataflow message_ix_models/model/transport/data.py
  > 3ms    3d ago grep Dataflow message_ix_models/model/transport/files.py

In this case, I have run the last (>) command only once and not for several days. OTOH command 2 I have run (a) many times and (b) most recently. A ‘frecency’-like score would be higher for this item, making it automatically the current item/selectable by immediately pressing [Enter].

¹ I've read through the configuration docs page and searched there and in the forums, but have not found anything related.