Re: Entering emojis

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:28:04 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> This is now totally and utterly feature complete, so give it a whirl if
> >> you're into emojis.  🤑  The branch is scratch/emoji, and the commands
> >> are `M-x emoji-insert', `C-u M-x emoji-insert' and `M-x emoji-list'.
> >
> > Would it make sense to install this on the release branch?  Since it's
> > a new orthogonal feature, it cannot possibly break anything else, just
> > be broken by itself, right?
> 
> It requires changes to transient.el to work, unfortunately.

I've seen them, but they, too, seem orthogonal, or somewhat safe, or
both?

Jonas, what is your opinion about the safety of the changes in
transient.el that Lars added recently?

> These commands need to have a keystroke, though.  I think people who use
> them will be using them a lot, so there should be a default keymap
> placement for them.  There's three commands now -- emoji-insert
> (graphical/category choosing), emoji-search (textual based on names) and
> emoli-list (one big buffer of emojis).
> 
> So...  er...  off the top of my head...
> 
> C-x 8 e e
> C-x 8 e s
> C-x 8 e l
> 
> `C-x 8' because that's where `C-x 8 RET' is.  Or...  is there a more
> likely place for insertion commands?  Uhm...  `C-x g'.  🤔💥

Why not just "C-x 8 e"?  It's available.