Shortcut to Specific Emoji

[TheSimArchitect]

📝 Provide a description of the new feature

What is the expected behavior of the proposed feature? What is the scenario this would be used?

It would be nice to be able to remap key combinations to specific emoji or other extended characters we can insert with the emoji pane or by inserting their code so, for example, we could associate AltGr + H to one of the Heart emojis etc.

It would be a considerable time saver for people who use emoji frequently at work (social media etc).

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[Merko]

You probably already know this, but you can use shortcut. Win + . (dot) to open up emoji menu, then just start typing "Heart" or some of the characters, then hit enter and it will insert the emoji.

[TheSimArchitect]

Yes, I do, of course. I can also use the emoji key to open the emoji panel. The problem is the emoji panel is very slow and there's a few emojis that I use often that I'd rather have a shortcut to type in directly like I can do with the € symbol, for example, by using AltGr + 5, but the same for emoji instead. We could have a text box where we can paste anything we want for each key or key combination, no matter the size, that would be quite convenient. We can even paste entire sentences that way.

[helmbold]

I suggest a more general implementation that allows to map a single key or a combination of keys to a arbitrary unicode character. I want to map a key to en dash, but can not find a way to do it with Power Toys.

[TheSimArchitect]

Yes! I was just thinking about that. Adding any Unicode characters or even sequences (so we can set up mini "macros") would be awesome!

[whpac]

I can think of it as assignment: (shortcut) -> (output character), like you would be able to assign Alt Gr+- to enter an en-dash or Alt Gr+" to enter i.e. ”

[TheSimArchitect]

If we could have an output string instead of character it would be better, since that would allow for us to paste entire sequences like words etc.

[crutkas]

End of day, this is #1207