Emoji on the command line

by bemmu • 11 years ago

37 11 11 years ago

julien_c• 11 years ago

Nice work. I think the git log example is contrived though, because you would probably include the real emoji characters in the actual commit title, right?

hansrodtang• 11 years ago

The syntax is common on GitHub: https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#git...

johanbrook• 11 years ago

You can, but I think regular Unicode emojis are more portable, since most systems and browsers support them these days. No need for :fallbacks:.

rdancer• 11 years ago

Emoji is just Unicode, so putting "I :heart: you" instead of "I ❤️ you" in a Unicode text file is rather, shall we say, na:LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS:ve -- this shit belongs in the editor. As implemented by, for example and in no particular order: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-emoji, https://github.com/kyuhi/vim-emoji-complete, https://github.com/mattn/emoji-vim, https://github.com/rhysd/github-complete.vim.

On the command line, the command line is the editor, so this program makes a lot of sense!

kalleboo• 11 years ago

👍

steckerbrett• 11 years ago

I've seen applications using this sort of thing but it typically slows down rendering log prints horribly.

Use ANSII colour or something if you want things to look pretty, not Unicode.

bentrevor• 11 years ago

An awk implementation: https://github.com/ecmendenhall/fmj

acheron• 11 years ago

I used to think the "mediaglyphs" in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age were far-fetched.

leni536• 11 years ago

   $ echo "I built a :snowman:." | sed -e 's/:snowman:/☃/g'
   I built a ☃.

The wonders of unicode.

laurentoget• 11 years ago

Am I the only one who does not understand why emoji are included in unicode? Wasn't unicode supposed to be about encoding glyphs used to write human languages, not cliparts designed by entertainment corporations?

vorg• 11 years ago

The Unicode Consortium need to keep themselves in a job.

Emoji on the command line

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