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Cmd+Ctrl+Space brings up the emoji palette on MacOS. This palette is easy to use from the keyboard and works in the terminal too. Some MacBooks famously also h

Cmd+Ctrl+Space brings up the emoji palette on MacOS. This palette is easy to use from the keyboard and works in the terminal too. Some MacBooks famously also have a TouchBar that makes emoji easy to type. I can't remember the last time I had issues rendering emoji, and I have no idea why they'd be difficult to search for or how they would pose any accessibility issues.

ShorsHammer 7y ago
What should the other 87% of people do in the interest of fairness? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
- whateveracct 7y ago
  It's also easy on Windows
  - AstralStorm 7y ago
    You mean Windows 10 newer than LTSB.
    - henrikeh 7y ago
      Where it hasn’t been disabled by their employer.
- naniwaduni 7y ago
  For at least ~20% of them, use an input method editor which is just as capable of emitting emoji as true text! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet
ken 7y ago
That keyboard shortcut brings it up, unless you've already brought it up on a different workspace, in which case that shortcut does nothing (until you find the previous workspace where it was brought up, and dismiss it there). I had no idea it was usable from the keyboard until I read this comment. There's a search box but it's invisible and hidden until you type blindly at a window that doesn't look like it accepts keys. Terminal mostly supports emoji, but has many bugs. Some emoji, after being typed and deleted, don't properly restore the cursor to its original position. ASCII may be ugly but works 100% of the time for me. I tried using emoji on macOS 10.14.5 Terminal just now and ran into every issue you said you don't encounter.
big_chungus 7y ago
Except, that's not really "easy". I prefer typing with buttons, not having to pull up a picker and search for each character. As others have mentioned, I don't want to pull up some window to grep through a commit log; I work very quickly in the terminal, and this would be an awful interruption to my flow.

ShorsHammer 7y ago

What should the other 87% of people do in the interest of fairness? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

whateveracct 7y ago
It's also easy on Windows
- AstralStorm 7y ago
  You mean Windows 10 newer than LTSB.
  - henrikeh 7y ago
    Where it hasn’t been disabled by their employer.
naniwaduni 7y ago
For at least ~20% of them, use an input method editor which is just as capable of emitting emoji as true text! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet

ken 7y ago

That keyboard shortcut brings it up, unless you've already brought it up on a different workspace, in which case that shortcut does nothing (until you find the previous workspace where it was brought up, and dismiss it there). I had no idea it was usable from the keyboard until I read this comment. There's a search box but it's invisible and hidden until you type blindly at a window that doesn't look like it accepts keys. Terminal mostly supports emoji, but has many bugs. Some emoji, after being typed and deleted, don't properly restore the cursor to its original position. ASCII may be ugly but works 100% of the time for me. I tried using emoji on macOS 10.14.5 Terminal just now and ran into every issue you said you don't encounter.

big_chungus 7y ago

Except, that's not really "easy". I prefer typing with buttons, not having to pull up a picker and search for each character. As others have mentioned, I don't want to pull up some window to grep through a commit log; I work very quickly in the terminal, and this would be an awful interruption to my flow.