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> Emoji are hard to type on non-mobile platforms On Windows they are easy: <Windows key> + . Finding the right emoji is easier than on my Android phone as Win

by porker 7y ago

> Emoji are hard to type on non-mobile platforms On Windows they are easy: <Windows key> + . Finding the right emoji is easier than on my Android phone as Windows lets me type the emoji name. Why emoji search is missing on Android... who knows.

galonk 7y ago
Mac equivalent is Cmd + Ctrl + Space (Edit > Emoji and Symbols).
simendsjo 7y ago
And it also contains lots of other symbols (non-emojis) easily accessible! How could I not know about this! Thanks.
0x073 7y ago
Depends on the keyboard you use, with gboard you can search for emojis.
- porker 7y ago
  Ah thanks. I'm using SwiftKey Keyboard. I found I am faster typing with it than Gboard. Perhaps time to try again.
rahuldottech 7y ago
A decent chunk of programmers use GNU/Linux distros. Support is very lacking there.
- DagAgren 7y ago
  "Programmers don't like this because Linux is shit" isn't a great argument against anything, really.
  - epse 7y ago
    While you are right, I don't think calling something shit is the best way to point that out
  - danShumway 7y ago
    Git is for programmers. What other demographic should we be caring about? If I'm an Android dev, it might bother me that application suspend is deliberately mishandled on tons of lower-end devices to improve battery life. Should I just ignore those users? If I'm making an email client, it might bother me that Gmail's IMAP support is crap. Should I stop supporting Gmail in my client? Tools make concessions for the platforms and environments that they'll run in. They always have, and they always will. You get to ignore platforms if you're comfortable saying, "my stuff isn't for the users of those platforms." But so many programmers are on Linux, it probably isn't feasible for most OS projects to ignore them. None of that means that Linux shouldn't have better emoji support. It should. It's embarrassing that it doesn't. But, you have to deal with the world as it exists today.
  - spadros 7y ago
    "Programmers don't like this (shit) tool addition you wrote because it doesn't work with the existing (shit) programming tools" is a better paraphrase TBH.
    - DagAgren 7y ago
      I mean, it works fine with my tools, I just choose not to use shit ones?
ken 7y ago
That still seems much harder to me. Instead of just adding "PERF" to my commit messages, and later grepping for "PERF", I have to pull up a separate window each time, and remember that performance changes are indicated by a lightning bolt.
- setr 7y ago
  >remember that performance changes are indicated by a lightning bolt. Tbh that's a very weak consideration, as it's ingrained through standardization throughout the codebase. And if this is for codebases you're not familiar with, then PERF is hardly gauranteed to.produce useful results (it certainly isn't standard in my own codebases). Much more dangerous is people expanding on emoji-tagging with things like COLOR and similar VARIANTS, or an explosion of tags like being suggested in this article, making it even harder to use/memorize the system But worst of all is that emoji are ugly and ruin the aesthetic of anything they come in contact with

by porker 7y ago

galonk 7y ago

Mac equivalent is Cmd + Ctrl + Space (Edit > Emoji and Symbols).

simendsjo 7y ago

And it also contains lots of other symbols (non-emojis) easily accessible! How could I not know about this! Thanks.

0x073 7y ago

Depends on the keyboard you use, with gboard you can search for emojis.

porker 7y ago
Ah thanks. I'm using SwiftKey Keyboard. I found I am faster typing with it than Gboard. Perhaps time to try again.

rahuldottech 7y ago

A decent chunk of programmers use GNU/Linux distros. Support is very lacking there.

DagAgren 7y ago
"Programmers don't like this because Linux is shit" isn't a great argument against anything, really.
- epse 7y ago
  While you are right, I don't think calling something shit is the best way to point that out
- danShumway 7y ago
  Git is for programmers. What other demographic should we be caring about? If I'm an Android dev, it might bother me that application suspend is deliberately mishandled on tons of lower-end devices to improve battery life. Should I just ignore those users? If I'm making an email client, it might bother me that Gmail's IMAP support is crap. Should I stop supporting Gmail in my client? Tools make concessions for the platforms and environments that they'll run in. They always have, and they always will. You get to ignore platforms if you're comfortable saying, "my stuff isn't for the users of those platforms." But so many programmers are on Linux, it probably isn't feasible for most OS projects to ignore them. None of that means that Linux shouldn't have better emoji support. It should. It's embarrassing that it doesn't. But, you have to deal with the world as it exists today.
- spadros 7y ago
  "Programmers don't like this (shit) tool addition you wrote because it doesn't work with the existing (shit) programming tools" is a better paraphrase TBH.
  - DagAgren 7y ago
    I mean, it works fine with my tools, I just choose not to use shit ones?

ken 7y ago

That still seems much harder to me. Instead of just adding "PERF" to my commit messages, and later grepping for "PERF", I have to pull up a separate window each time, and remember that performance changes are indicated by a lightning bolt.

setr 7y ago
>remember that performance changes are indicated by a lightning bolt. Tbh that's a very weak consideration, as it's ingrained through standardization throughout the codebase. And if this is for codebases you're not familiar with, then PERF is hardly gauranteed to.produce useful results (it certainly isn't standard in my own codebases). Much more dangerous is people expanding on emoji-tagging with things like COLOR and similar VARIANTS, or an explosion of tags like being suggested in this article, making it even harder to use/memorize the system But worst of all is that emoji are ugly and ruin the aesthetic of anything they come in contact with