sindresorhus/refined-github

support more emoticons #3569

staabm posted onGitHub

when working with comments and emoji github provides a small picker for the most relevant (I guess?) emojis in

grafik

but a lot more are supported, see e.g. https://gist.github.com/rxaviers/7360908

when I want to add one of the emoticons which is not listed in the overlay, I need to look them up in a cheat sheet (or learn them by heart).

I feel the current experience can be improved in the following ways:

  • add some kind of "show more"/"show all" emoji button in the overlay, to ease looking up all/most of them
  • the overlay could take into account which emoji I use at most and it would show me other recently used emojis in the overlay - for a more personalized experience
  • in https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/issues/2890 there was a suggestion to use the native windows picker .. wouldn't it be cool, if the overlay emoji UI would contain a hint for windows users, how the native emoji picker can be invoked? maybe even with a link to this article?

example link, on which this feature could be tested: https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/issues/3569


but a lot more are supported, see e.g. https://gist.github.com/rxaviers/7360908

Those are for use in the comment text. The picker you're showing in the screenshot is for comment reactions, which cannot be extended with more emoji by us. You'll have to send a feature request to GitHub for that.

in #2890 there was a suggestion to use the native windows picker .. wouldn't it be cool, if the overlay emoji UI would contain a hint for windows users, how the native emoji picker can be invoked? maybe even with a link to this article?

It's IMHO neither GitHub nor Refined GitHub's job to teach people how to do things in Windows.


As for a better emoji picker for comment text. We don't intend to do that as that's the job for the system emoji picker.

posted by sindresorhus over 4 years ago

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