Wishlist: Allow specifying list of "aliases" to existing data set

[hloeung]

Hi,

In some cases, we want to specify aliases, e.g. :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: to :rofl: / "🤣" (see github/gemoji#280). As well as :lol: and :laughing: to :rofl:.

There are other custom ones such as :done2: to :white_check_mark: and :alert: to :rotating_light:.

Any chance of adding support for something along these lines?

[kenshaw]

Some of the aliases you listed are already in the Gemoji data, and are thus in this package. For example:

$ grep -r -n lol *
gemoji.go:16:           {"\U0001f923", "rolling on the floor laughing", "Smileys & Emotion", []string{"rofl"}, []string{"lol", "laughing"}, "9.0", "10.2", false}

My understanding of the Gemoji data, is that this is just parsed/extrapolated from the Unicode standard.

If you wanted to add your own emoji to look up custom aliases, it would be quite straight forward, just write a map or a switch with the specialized values and return it.

If you were interested in writing the code to inject additional aliases, or even if you wanted to modify gen.go to also parse the Mattermost aliases, I'd be more than happy to consider any well written PR.

Cheers!

[hloeung]

I saw that when looking through the Gemoji data. Maybe this module should also search tags as well (which is where lol and laughing is defined)?

Sure, I'll give it a go. Thanks for your time.

[hloeung]

@kenshaw, any chance you could take a look at the linked PRs? Any chance of considering accepting them?