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keyboard shortcut for making Emojis & Emoticons? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Super + . (period) on KDE Plasma

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This works on Win 10 as well.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

It's a copy of Plasma anyway.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And Windows 11.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

And my axe... eleven install?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks 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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks a ton!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I wonder why ASCII is written as “Ascii.”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Thanks, I hate it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Tihi

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

America great, the other things not ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks 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)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 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).

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

TIL. Thanks 🫡

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

🥑🤮🚋🖲️