Emoji on the command line

julien_c · on July 25, 2015

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?

rdancer · on July 25, 2015

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!

hansrodtang · on July 25, 2015

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

johanbrook · on July 25, 2015

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

acheron · on July 25, 2015

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

laurentoget · on July 25, 2015

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 · on July 25, 2015

The Unicode Consortium need to keep themselves in a job.

bentrevor · on July 25, 2015

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

kalleboo · on July 25, 2015

leni536 · on July 25, 2015

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

The wonders of unicode.

steckerbrett · on July 25, 2015

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.