spacemacs/layers/+fun/emoji

Emoji layer

• Description
  • Features:
• Install
  • Configuration
    • Unicode or short-names
• Key bindings
  • Emoji dedicated buffer

Description

This layer adds support for Emoji emoticons from emoji-cheat-sheet.

Features:

• Browse Emoji in a dedicated buffer
• Display Emoji images in buffer
• Insert one or several Emoji with a helm front-end
• Completion of Emojis using company-emoji

Install

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add emoji to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

Linux user could install Symbola font to get company-emoji support with apt-get

  apt-get install ttf-ancient-fonts

Configuration

Unicode or short-names

By default, company-emoji is configured only for text-mode and inserts unicode. To insert short-names set company-emoji-insert-unicode to nil as follows:

  (auto-completion :variables
                   company-emoji-insert-unicode nil)

Key bindings

Key binding	Description
SPC a f e	open a dedicated buffer to browse Emoji
SPC i e	insert Emoji via a helm buffer

Emoji dedicated buffer

Key binding	Description
RET	copy current Emoji code
q	quit