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keyboard shortcut for making Emojis & Emoticons? (lemmy.world)
submitted 23 hours ago by AdityaGavit@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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 40 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Super + . (period) on KDE Plasma

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

This works on Win 10 as well.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 16 points 20 hours ago

It's a copy of Plasma anyway.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 10 points 21 hours ago

And Windows 11.

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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

(https://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 4 points 21 hours ago

Thanks a ton!

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 17 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder why ASCII is written as “Ascii.”

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks, I hate it

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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 1 points 3 hours ago

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:

https://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.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

America great, the other things not ;)

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 3 points 6 hours ago

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)

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] finley@lemm.ee 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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 23 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

TIL. Thanks 🫡