Not sure how plain ivy sorts its candidates, but do you have by chance any additional package installed? A package, which re-sorts the candidate list? A Package like prescient, smex, flx, historian, …?

regarding Elisp:
Consider using and contributing to the packages helpful and/or elisp-demos.

In case a SLY user is reading this. Sly brings sly-switch-to-most-recent, you might have to bind it to C-c C-z yourself in sly-mrepl-mode-map.

Here is a video showing two more variants:

https://0x0.st/HJF3.mkv

Yes isearch is powerful, but you have to learn and remember its keybindings, because if you don’t: isearch quits (and I need to start that search at the beginning).

Isearch’s help C-h b doesn’t make it better, because I would need to scroll that long list in the help window, but if I do so … isearch quits.

Therefore I installed the package isearch-mb (*) and used easy-menu to add a drop down menu for isearch. Now, if I can’t remember an isearch keybinding, I am able to look at the menu bar, without isearch quitting.

(*) As always with Emacs: there are other ways to solve that.

thanks!

I found this: https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnu-emacs/2023-07/msg01135.html

From above link:
Those files have set no-byte-compile to t, but Emacs needs to open those files (and reports it) in order to see this setting.

So, setting native-comp-jit-compilation-deny-list won’t do any harm here. I will use it to suppress this messages.

You got me interested, but I never worked with ob-plantuml before. I’d like to try it myself.

Could you please give a full working example? One with org-block arguments and working export to latex/pdf.
Or link a tutorial?

Maybe we just need smarter auto complete frameworks that take the frequency of symbol use into account,

Since quite some years there is company-prescient in case you are using Emacs with SLIME / SLY and company.el. Look at its readme to learn there exist other similar packages (Imo since more than a decade already).