GaZaTu/x11-emoji-picker

Feature request: sub-string searching

fluffynuts opened this issue · 7 comments

fluffynuts commented

First off, thanks for this project - it works well, is fast and free!

I'd like to propose a feature request though: sub-string searching for emoji:

Consider 😂 (face_with_tears_of_joy) - on a lot of platforms (eg slack), one can get to this with :joy:, so that was my first attempt - no matches. However, I took a guess that it would be something with face, typed that in, and found the emoji I was looking for.

Thoughts?

I could try to cobble together a PR - it's been a while since I was in cpp land tho.

GaZaTu commented

Thx for the compliment. 😚

As for your request, that feature already exists. Although it only activates with 4 or more characters in the search textfield. If you think 3 would be better i'll change it; or atleast make it configurable. 😉

If you're using the 0.7.2 binaries then i'll have to update them on monday because they don't have that feature yet. 😅

In the meantime you can type 😂 literally as the emoji picker supports GitHub emoji codes.

fluffynuts commented

yeah, perhaps I have an old version, but typing tears_of_ doesn't get me to the 😂 emoji (face_with_tears_of_joy). I'm doing something wrong perhaps? need config? if so, whatever config that is might be useful as default?

fluffynuts commented

This is still by far the best emoji picker for linux (imo), but would really like it to be "obvious" to everyone.

fluffynuts commented

version info is probably helpful: I'm using the 0.7.2 AppImage.

GaZaTu commented

yeah i was a lazy cow and didn't update the binaries 🤣; there have been quite a few improvements since then.

i'll upload the 0.8.0 AppImage tomorrow or monday evening. 🤞

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fluffynuts commented

works great, thanks for updating (: