Signal-desktop: Searchable Emoji (request)

[MrMerkin]

Hi guys

love the app. works great on Mac OS.

I would love to see a search feature for emojis in the desktop version.

When the emoji panel is shown, it would be great to have a simple bar above the group icons (or at the bottom of the panel above where you type your message). The left side of this bar would be a text field to type in your term, the right side could show some of the recent ones used or those most often used (smaller than full size)—maybe 5-10 recent icons. If you like, I can make a mockup.

thanks

[JohnTheLearner]

+1 Something analogous to what slack does for both their mobile and desktop apps would be great.

[Wurzelmann]

+1 for this, Twitter also has searchable Emojis and something similar would be great.

[tkilaker]

+1
Would love that a search/filtered list would appear if you begin a word with ":". Eg. ":sm" will show a list of emojis that match.

[JohnTheLearner]

@JohnEcks @tkilaker @Wurzelmann this is in the beta now...look for the magnifying glass in the upper left corner of the emoji pop-up. Big thanks to @scottnonnenberg-signal and the Signal team!!!

[JohnTheLearner]

....didn't notice it before, but just updated to the latest mac beta, v1.25.0-beta.4, today and it's there.

[kenpowers-signal]

This feature is in production now. Closing as fixed. Enjoy!