Hey, you greybeard. I couldn't find a manual either on first glance but, hey, we know about Github stars and see many colorful emoji and symbols on the frontpage.
No, irony left aside. I also miss the clean, boring but highly useful landing pages of old-school utility programs. A short description and a well written man page was all we needed, plus some screenshots for TUI/GUI programs.
My feeling is that especially Rust enthusiasts like emoji, colors and banners a lot. But maybe I am also just getting old...
Any time I see an emoji, I just want to turn away. I don’t know why I’m so resistant to them. Possibly because I feel I can’t take anyone seriously who would bother to pull up an on-screen keyboard just to add a little rocket ship to a line for almost no reason.
A couple years ago I had them always at the ready, right there on my Touch Bar! I mean, what's the point of having a Touch Bar if you can't even type a :Rocket: on it?
That's your personal preference, of course, but expressing emotion in text has been around since the dawn of the internet. Emojis are just a more expressive form of emoticons, and I <3 them, but I agree that they can be annoying if overused. :-)
That and they attempt to communicate complex ideas with a series of faces that one might make when encountering the subject. Like should we interpret a persons vomit emoji as a distaste for a particular concept, or just for big words in general? Who knows?
I have a hotkey that launches a bash script that pipes all emojis & their descriptors into fzf (terminal fuzzy search utility), which pipes out the selection into the clipboard :)
Have you tried finding a way to get your OS to supply you with the total list of emojis? That's the only thing I'd try to improve after I took a quick look.
personally, I'm on Mojave, so my OS doesn't even have the latest Unicode table. however, the full tables are available from various sources. including Unicode's official site: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html
Not affiliated with the project, but just took a look at their readme. It literally lists how to install it on every single platform, how to launch it, what features it has, keyboard shotcuts and troubleshooting steps.
I thought it was a great readme. It is weird how you guys dismissed the whole thing just because the readme has emojis.
I learned Perl as a first programming language, and to this day I maintain that their documentation is better than that of any other language I've tried. Putting a synopsis with example syntax at the very beginning is, IMO, the ideal.
Example at [1]. I can take this and run with it, after reading for less than 15 seconds I know enough to start working.
No, irony left aside. I also miss the clean, boring but highly useful landing pages of old-school utility programs. A short description and a well written man page was all we needed, plus some screenshots for TUI/GUI programs.
My feeling is that especially Rust enthusiasts like emoji, colors and banners a lot. But maybe I am also just getting old...