Select emoji with a keyboard

[maximbaz]

How hard would it be to allow selecting emoji with arrow keys (or Ctrl+jklh in the latest Cerebro), and copying it with Enter (or Ctrl+o)? That would be very cool for accessibility, no need to reach for a mouse just to copy one of the emojis.

Update: oh, I see @tiagoamaro already suggested that in #1 🙂

[tiagoamaro]

@maximbaz that's a very good suggestion, but not so "quick" to code. I imagine @KELiON is busy right now as I'm also busy to code it. There are some plugins that implement it as my cerebro/duck-duck-go plugin.

As you can see, @KELiON contributed himself to add keyboard navigation to that: cerebroapp/cerebro-duck-duck-go#1. The approach wouldn't be hard :)

PR's are always welcome 🎉!

[KELiON]

I'd also like to see this keyboard nav!

@tiagoamaro in case of this plugin it will be a bit harder, because in google/duck-duck-go plugin items are located vertically and could be navigated only with up/down keys:

But in this plugin we have a grid with dynamic count of items horizontally/vertically:

I think changing it to some fixed grid layout will solve the problem so we can navigate with arrows or cmd/ctrl+hjkl

[tiagoamaro]

Actually, it's not a "grid" per se. It's just an emoji list displayed as a grid because of CSS. If I get my hands on this issue, I'll do the following way: just right/left/j/k navigation assuming the emoji list as a circular list. Easier and doesn't change the original implementation.

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[maximbaz]

Whatever the implementation we end up with, let's make sure we will be allowed to perform the following navigation: