Pressing a hotkey (e.g. ctrl+space) while typing opens a popup that allows you to search for emotes/emojis.
example:

Looks like the image is missing, but something similar to dankchat would be cool:

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I would like to see a hotkey for this.
I like typing emojis with : but I don't want the emote popup when I type it.
I think what apa says could also go nicely with #1592
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Is functionality from f7237dc sufficient for the topic of this issue?