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allow search to return all #24
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The For example:
But the pirate flag emoji consists of multiple emojis:
There is all sorts of special handling for emojis; I don't think combing them is a good idea. As for your ballot box icon:
That seems to work as expected, as it's a single codepoint? There is no special handling in print/search at all based on the character type, outside of formatting the control characters and combining characters. So I'm not sure what went wrong there? |
Sorry, I left out some information. What I really want is indeed to use uni to output all emojis, codepoints etc. Including names, so that I can pipe it all to bemenu (a dmenu for X/Wayland) and search incrementally... |
And yes, ballot was found by search all along :) |
I don't know; maybe it could be unified, but there's a lot of special handling involved, and there are probably a few UX issues that will crop up. Considering that this is a tool I wrote for my own purposes and that overall I'm pretty happy with it as a user, the chance that I will work on this is very close to zero. I'm always happy to accommodate people's use cases, but there's a limit to the amount of work I'm willing to spend on that. Just want to be clear about expectations here 😅 I might consider merging patches, but that will depend a bit on whether I like the UI. Considering it would be a significant rewrite this actually might be better off as a fork (the amount of work is the same). As a workaround, you can create a simple wrapper script which calls |
I realized that I can do something like that, yes. Combining output of |
I'd prefer to use
search
for listing emojis, as it includes, just for example what I was missing now:'☐' U+2610 9744 e2 98 90 ☐ BALLOT BOX (Other_Symbol)
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does not include this, because it is not deemed an emoji, not in certain emoji codepoint blocks, or so?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: