From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering emojis Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:39:47 +0200 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87sfwneiks.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87cznths5j.fsf@gnus.org> <83zgqxymd3.fsf@gnu.org> <878rygj4gt.fsf@gnus.org> <83wnm0zz0q.fsf@gnu.org> <874k94j3rn.fsf@gnus.org> <83v91kzydh.fsf@gnu.org> <87tuh4holf.fsf@gnus.org> <822aec9d01909cecfc6c@heytings.org> <87a6iwhltf.fsf@gnus.org> <83tuh4zfg5.fsf@gnu.org> <87y26gfobr.fsf@gnus.org> <87tuh4f1ie.fsf@gnus.org> <87lf2fg44h.fsf@gnus.org> <874k93g05h.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10013"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:fFZsQdGRHZlk0nws9FjIwZZtDlI= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 26 20:47:11 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mfRTb-0002OJ-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:47:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39234 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfRTY-0004wp-QF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfRMd-0003ZO-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:40:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:39798) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfRMb-0005Ut-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:39:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mfRMZ-0003K9-Ti for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:39:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:277920 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Stefan Kangas writes: > >> Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: >> >>> Yes, a huge grid (divided into sections) is probably also a good thing, >>> but that would be a separate command, like `list-emojis' or something. >> >> If we set aside the difficulties of implementing it, wouldn't it be >> natural to just have one unified interface, that supports both using >> keys like a-z and arrow keys+RET to pick the emoji you want? > > The huge grid wouldn't really be navigable by keyboard input, I think? > I mean, there's thousands of the darn things, and my keyboard doesn't > have that many keys. If the names of emojis are also displayed, one may just search by its name.. (or use somthing like avy-goto-char) Sounds more convenient than having to go deep several levels to pick up an emoji. -- William