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Any time I see an emoji, I just want to turn away. I don’t know why I’m so resistant to them. Possibly because I feel I can’t take anyone seriously who would bo

Any time I see an emoji, I just want to turn away. I don’t know why I’m so resistant to them. Possibly because I feel I can’t take anyone seriously who would bother to pull up an on-screen keyboard just to add a little rocket ship to a line for almost no reason.

xk_id 3y ago
I have a hotkey that launches a bash script that pipes all emojis & their descriptors into fzf (terminal fuzzy search utility), which pipes out the selection into the clipboard :)
- pdimitar 3y ago
  Oh? Do share, please? I need this every now and then. Granted probably 3 times a week but still.
  - xk_id 3y ago
    start from this https://github.com/gotbletu/shownotes/blob/master/fzf_speed/_emoji%2C--.copy.from.list.of.emojis https://github.com/gotbletu/shownotes/blob/master/fzf_speed/...
    - pdimitar 3y ago
      Took a quick look: VERY impressive, thank you? Have you tried finding a way to get your OS to supply you with the total list of emojis? That's the only thing I'd try to improve after I took a quick look.
      - xk_id 3y ago
        personally, I'm on Mojave, so my OS doesn't even have the latest Unicode table. however, the full tables are available from various sources. including Unicode's official site: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html
IggleSniggle 3y ago
A couple years ago I had them always at the ready, right there on my Touch Bar! I mean, what's the point of having a Touch Bar if you can't even type a :Rocket: on it? Edit: HN did not like my emoji.
danuker 3y ago
A lot of sites interpret stuff like :rocket: as emojis, and even have autocomplete.
dumpsterdiver 3y ago
That and they attempt to communicate complex ideas with a series of faces that one might make when encountering the subject. Like should we interpret a persons vomit emoji as a distaste for a particular concept, or just for big words in general? Who knows?
imiric 3y ago
That's your personal preference, of course, but expressing emotion in text has been around since the dawn of the internet. Emojis are just a more expressive form of emoticons, and I <3 them, but I agree that they can be annoying if overused. :-)

xk_id 3y ago

I have a hotkey that launches a bash script that pipes all emojis & their descriptors into fzf (terminal fuzzy search utility), which pipes out the selection into the clipboard :)

pdimitar 3y ago
Oh? Do share, please? I need this every now and then. Granted probably 3 times a week but still.
- xk_id 3y ago
  start from this https://github.com/gotbletu/shownotes/blob/master/fzf_speed/_emoji%2C--.copy.from.list.of.emojis https://github.com/gotbletu/shownotes/blob/master/fzf_speed/...
  - pdimitar 3y ago
    Took a quick look: VERY impressive, thank you? Have you tried finding a way to get your OS to supply you with the total list of emojis? That's the only thing I'd try to improve after I took a quick look.
    - xk_id 3y ago
      personally, I'm on Mojave, so my OS doesn't even have the latest Unicode table. however, the full tables are available from various sources. including Unicode's official site: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html

IggleSniggle 3y ago

A couple years ago I had them always at the ready, right there on my Touch Bar! I mean, what's the point of having a Touch Bar if you can't even type a :Rocket: on it? Edit: HN did not like my emoji.

danuker 3y ago

A lot of sites interpret stuff like :rocket: as emojis, and even have autocomplete.

dumpsterdiver 3y ago

That and they attempt to communicate complex ideas with a series of faces that one might make when encountering the subject. Like should we interpret a persons vomit emoji as a distaste for a particular concept, or just for big words in general? Who knows?

imiric 3y ago

That's your personal preference, of course, but expressing emotion in text has been around since the dawn of the internet. Emojis are just a more expressive form of emoticons, and I <3 them, but I agree that they can be annoying if overused. :-)