Discord-like emoji when I type the : symbol in chat

[webmaster]

right now, it even works on the forums here, discord, signal, telegram and other chat apps if i type the : symbol an emoji selector will popup. that’d be cool to see it appear in the delta.chat app. i think alot of people, including myself love to use emojis and this would make the delta.chat app better.

[Simon]

desktop already replaces colon emojis before sending.

Though it has no preview / selector that pops up yet.

It’s also mentioned in the markdown subset that we plan to implement: message-parser/spec.md at master · deltachat/message-parser · GitHub

[ell1e]

All fresh users I’ve gotten to try DeltaChat so far have been surprised by there being no preview, so it would be certainly nice to have.

[adbenitez]

this is a duplicate of

Emoji autocompletion

I am not an emoji expert, most of the time I avoid to use most of the emojis because I don’t know what they mean, having the emojis labelled and accessible by triggering autocompletion on “:” would be useful, also as a way of quickly finding the emoji you are looking for. Something like: [Screenshot_20190121-153822]