Tig: Feature Request: add support for emojis shortnames in commit messages

[yuchi]

Ok, they looks stupid. But some people like them (I am more or less among those).

[jonas]

What is an "emoji shortname"? I am not sure what is the purpose of this feature.

[yuchi]

:robot: becomes :robot:

They are used at the start of commit messages as tags.

[spytheman]

@yuchi What font which supports emojis, do you use for your terminal ?

[yuchi]

In OS X iTerm switches to the system default for emojis. I honestly have no idea of support on other platforms.

[yuchi]

To see this trend in the wild you can have a look at commits in The Atom editor (https://github.com/atom/atom/commits/master)

[jonas]

Converting :robot: to an emoji is out of scope for this project. Maybe this can be implemented via an external script/text preprocessor once I get around to add support for that.

It is unfortunate that emojis themselves are not really supported by Tig. I am not sure where this is breaking. The only emoji that I've seen working is ❤️.

[jonas]

Emojis are rendered since 800199e47fc8326a4a2ce25f8f3bb91fed2e3fbf. Closing this one as out of scope.

[sebastianst]

In view of http://gitmoji.carloscuesta.me/ I would like to reopen this request. Github and Gitlab translate :tada: into :tada:, instead of them saying that it is the browser's job to translate those weird colon-separated words into emojis. So it can be argued that it would be :heart: :heart: :heart: for tig to support this increasing usage of emojis at the beginning of commit messages, instead of off-loading that task to the terminal.

Regarding the rendering of emojis in the terminal, I use Arch Linux with noto-fonts-emoji installed and emojis are displayed perfectly in color in my terminal (termite).

[theochampion]

I agree with @sebastianst, gitmojis are becoming popular so I think it's an interesting functionality for TIG

[yuchi]

@jonas Would you mind to re-open this issue given the new context? The Gitmoji project reached 6K stars here on GitHub.