keyboard shortcut for making Emojis & Emoticons?
from AdityaGavit@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 18 Jan 06:27
https://lemmy.world/post/24409040

If you’re on Windows, just press:

Windows + ; (semicolon)

It pops up this little menu where you can pick all kinds of emoticons and stuff. Super handy if you’re lazy like me and don’t want to Google them every time 😂.

Quick heads-up though: the selection is kinda limited compared to what you get on your phone or online, but it’s still pretty cool. If you’re into more options, check out “Emoticon Hub” or hit up GitHub’s massive emoji list.

Also… I have no clue what the shortcut is on Mac (if there even is one). Any Mac users here? Drop a comment and help a clueless user out!

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SatyrSack@feddit.org on 18 Jan 06:34 next collapse

Super + . (period) on KDE Plasma

BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jan 06:48 next collapse

Is that just on Plasma? Do you know if there’s an equivalent for Cinnamon or is there some pack somewhere I can install?

foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml on 18 Jan 08:56 collapse

Install this flathub app with this command : flatpak install flathub com.tomjwatson.Emote

(flathub.org/apps/com.tomjwatson.Emote)

Then next assign a shortcut to open the app when pressing Meta + . for example. (Default one is Ctrl + Alt + E)

BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jan 09:14 collapse

Thanks a ton!

reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Jan 07:39 collapse

This works on Win 10 as well.

SuiXi3D@fedia.io on 18 Jan 08:21 next collapse

And Windows 11.

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org on 19 Jan 11:47 collapse

And my axe… eleven install?

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 18 Jan 09:25 collapse

It’s a copy of Plasma anyway.

BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jan 06:47 next collapse

Weird. It’s Win+V for me. But I guess that’s because I use PowerToys (which every Windows user should because WTF why are these things not baked into Windows rantrantrantragerant).

FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de on 18 Jan 07:51 next collapse

Win + V should bring up cliboard history which is basically the same pop-up just on a different tab.

BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jan 07:53 collapse

TIL. Thanks 🫡

PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee on 19 Jan 20:31 collapse

Because making the is better is not how they make money. Thats why all the changes they do make are forcing to use their shit programs and collect your data. The answer is always capitalism.

BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works on 20 Jan 04:53 collapse
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch on 18 Jan 07:50 next collapse

I wonder why ASCII is written as “Ascii.”

elvith@feddit.org on 18 Jan 10:45 next collapse

America great, the other things not ;)

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch on 18 Jan 18:51 collapse

What does that have to do with it?

If this is supposed to be a “gottem” moment because it appears I’m hating on the British style, please know I didn’t know that until others chimed in (hence my question). And actually, I prefer the British way of writing some acronyms without the dots to the American style, but writing ASCII like it’s a word (Ascii) looks really bad.

PoolloverNathan@programming.dev on 18 Jan 19:24 next collapse

It’s joking about A, which in ASCII stands for America, being the only letter capitalized.

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch on 19 Jan 01:25 collapse

Ah, gotcha. I knew what it stood for but I’m also an idiot.

elvith@feddit.org on 18 Jan 23:26 collapse

ASCII is short for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. And as another commenter already pointed out, only the A for America is capitalized. It was just a joke playing on the way it’s written (and the fact that there’s the MAGA movement)

Brewchin@lemmy.world on 18 Jan 16:07 collapse

They probably have a style guide, as most media outlets do, that says pronounceable acronyms/initialisms are to be written like a name and the rest as everyone expects.

So you get Ascii, Unix and Nasa alongside IBM and PCMCIA.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 18 Jan 17:14 next collapse

That’s more a British style I think. I’ve definitely noticed a shift in software strings. If I had to guess, I’d say that the increase in software developers from India and other South Asian countries means more of that style being inherited.

Brewchin@lemmy.world on 19 Jan 02:20 collapse

Possibly, on both counts. I know the Guardian and BBC News style guides use that convention.

Yet there’s this regarding the AP Style Guide:

grammarmill.com/ap-style-rule-for-acronyms/

It mentions odd rules like “if an acronym is longer than 5 characters” and such.

Either way, my money’s on an internal style guide that Microsoft (in OP’s example) requires its staff to use.

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch on 18 Jan 18:49 collapse

Thanks, I hate it

Brewchin@lemmy.world on 19 Jan 02:05 next collapse

Me too.

People learn from reading that kind of thing. Aside from it being unnecessary and confusing, there’s going to be a percentage of people who’ll think “Ascii” (or whatever) is a name rather than an abbreviation.

Venator@lemmy.nz on 19 Jan 11:37 collapse

Tihi

finley@lemm.ee on 18 Jan 08:39 next collapse

Ctrl-Space on an any Apple device (macOS/iOS/iPadOS). It’s been there since forever.

UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 19 Jan 14:55 collapse

🥑🤮🚋🖲️