Giovanni Crisalfi

Kaomel is now on #MELPA! ｡◕‿◕｡

A snappy #kaomoji picker for #Emacs with ~1000 kaomojis, multilingual tags, and support for both Vertico and Helm. No dependencies, pure Emacs #Lisp.

Install: M-x package-install RET kaomel RET

What started as "wouldn't it be nice to pick kaomojis without using the mouse" became a journey of solving interesting problems around dataset extensibility and completion framework flexibility.

Blog post: https://zwit.link/posts/kaomel-emacs-package/

Repo: https://github.com/gicrisf/kaomel

Zwit - Kaomel: a snappy kaomoji picker for Emacs

I always liked kaomojis, but I never liked using the mouse to pick an emoji of any kind. Actually, I just don't like using the mouse. So I thought I could access the kaomoji world through Emacs keymag…

Oct 18 at 5:01pmWeb
Show threadOmar AntolínOct 19
@gicrisf Why did you decide to add Helm support? What does the Helm-specific interface do that the completing-read version doesn't do under Helm?
Show threadGiovanni CrisalfiOct 20
@oantolin The Helm-specific code is a residue from the initial development. Since it provides access to Helm's `:candidate-number-limit`, I didn't want to remove it, though honestly, I could