Re: Entering emojis

[Kévin Le Gouguec]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> C-x 8 e s ok C-j
>> C-x 8 e s *bowing C-j
>
> Do you mean that it's not requiring a match?  That should have been
> fixed some minutes ago.

Apologies for the confusion; I wrote C-j out of habit, because it's what
icomplete uses for "use first completion candidate"; RET means "ignore
candidates; just use what I typed" when REQUIRE-MATCH is nil.

As of 2021-10-28 "Fix build warning" (8c43fe0940), RET and C-j both
bring up the "choose a variation" transient, so everything is as
expected IIUC!

Btw, should the variations be presented as transient arguments, instead
of transient commands?  transient.el allows saving arguments with C-x
C-s, so it'd make sense IMO to turn the first-insertion UX into
something like

1. start looking for emoji,
2. apply variations as transient arguments,
3. C-x C-s those arguments for frequently used variations,
4. pick emoji,

and later insertions could just be steps 1 and 4, with an occasional
variation tweak when needed.