Emoji picker¶

Find an emoji by name and paste it into the app you were using. Type : and a name (:heart, :thumbs up) or emoji and a name. The matches are shown as a grid of tiles.

The emoji picker: typing a colon lists emoji as a grid of tiles, with the selected tile named below and Enter to paste.

How to use it¶

Type	Shown	Press `Enter`
`:heart`	Every emoji whose name or keywords match "heart"	Pastes the selected emoji
`:thumbs up`	👍 and related emoji	Pastes it
`emoji party`	🎉 🥳 and others, by keyword	Pastes it

The : keyword needs no space (:smile works). About 1,900 emoji are bundled with Sevak and found by their names and keywords, offline. Skin-tone variants are not listed: the base emoji is pasted and apps apply their own tone setting.

Actions¶

Key	Action
`Enter`	Paste the emoji into the app you were using (it is copied where pasting is unavailable)
`Shift`+`Enter`	Copy the emoji instead of pasting it
`Left` `Right` `Up` `Down`	Move between tiles; ++pageup++ / ++pagedown++ jump three rows
`Shift` (tap) or `Ctrl`+`Y`	Preview pane: the emoji large, with its name, keywords and code points
`Ctrl`+`K`	All actions of the selected tile

The grid shows up to 60 tiles. Pasting works like snippets and clipboard history; see Pasting: platform notes.

Options¶

Setting	Default	What it does	Config section
Keywords	`emoji` and `:`	Fixed; they cannot be changed	—
Turn it off	on	Add `"emoji"` to `[plugins] disabled` (`emoji:word` and `emoji:colon` turn off one keyword)	`[plugins] disabled`

Tips¶

Find by meaning

Keywords come from the Unicode CLDR annotations, so a word describing an emoji often finds it even when it is not in the emoji's name.