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The emoji 😷 "face with medical mask" is too long to type #332

Open hobgoblinsmaster opened 4 years ago

hobgoblinsmaster commented 4 years ago

On this time of pandemic, this emoji (😷 U+1F637) is more useful than before, it should be shorter to type (maybe something like m a s k).

mrubli commented 4 years ago

Isn't that what user-defined sequences are for? Open the Sequences window, hit the Edit button at the lower left, and in the opening text editor add this at the bottom:

<Multi_key> <m> <a> <s> <k> : "😷"   U1F637  # FACE WITH MEDICAL MASK

Save the file, close the editor, then hit Reload and you should be good to go.

(There seems to be a bug where the Sequences window remains unaware of the newly added sequences – even after reloading – despite the new sequence actually working. After restarting WinCompose it does show up in the Sequences window.)

dtruebin commented 4 years ago

@hobgoblinsmaster assuming you are running Windows 10, you can use the built-in emoji keyboard: simply hit Win + dot and then type emoji description to find the suitable ones: image This feature was added to Win10 around 2018, while WinCompose started supporting emoji way before that, around 2015:

$ git log --pretty=%h --reverse --grep=emoji -i | head -n1 | xargs git log -1
commit 04074854e256efcef3c2c4b94d0f7b213c94de62
Author: Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>
Date:   Sun Mar 1 23:17:15 2015 +0100

    Import a list of emoji symbols. No compose rules yet.

WinCompose is great for typing intricate symbols, but having to remember the exact key combo to type an emoji... Meh. Emoji support is just not the strongest side of WinCompose.