Emoji support

[lapin-b]

Can Cmder support displaying emojis?

[daxgames]

What are some possible use cases for support for emojis in a terminal/command-line app like Cmder/ConEmu?

Can someone explain to me?

[lapin-b]

@daxgames If you want another test printer for PHPUnit which prints emojis, it coule be useful. Except I don't have any other uses examples for the emojis support

[AlbertoFdzM]

Because they are useful. There are so many terninal tools that has started using them. Brew, some npm packages, git for github, etc.

[Stanzilla]

Can you explain the potential uses for emojis, how are they useful?

[AlbertoFdzM]

Cross and ticks to show list of process that has gone well and wrong, warning signal for the warning messages of a process, the bug is usually used to identify bugs, and a long long etc.

They are helpful providing a way to bring meaning with less words

[ticklemynausea]

Why all the questining of usefulness? If it's not useful to you, that's fine. But there's no good reason the best console for windows should not support something Linux and Mac OS users already have had for quite a while.

[Stanzilla]

Since the default terminal emulator that is used by Cmder is ConEmu, this needs to be added to the ConEmu package.

Please follow the issues over at ConEmu's issue tracker related to emoji support:
https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu/issues?q=emoji

[laurent22]

I imagine it's difficult to support but that would definitely set ConEmu aside from other Windows terminal emulators, since none of them supported Emojis at the time of writing this.

[daxgames]

As already stated, this is not a feature for the Cmder team to add. If you want emoji support, it would need to be added to ConEmu or maybe even Windows Console subsystem by Microsoft. ConEmu is a component of Cmder and not developed by the Cmder Team.

Good Luck!

[DRSDavidSoft]

@daxgames Just as a perspective to where Emojis are used, Yarn is a package manager for node that does this wonderfully:

Related issues:

• Optional emoji support yarnpkg/yarn#960
• Disable emojis if terminal isn't a TTY yarnpkg/yarn#405

Here's how this is displayed in Cmder as of writing this:

I know it's not related related to Cmder and we should just wait for Maximus5/ConEmu#554 but I thought it'd be a good idea to mention it here.

[daxgames]

@DRSDavidSoft Thanks for the good explanation. I get it, it would be nice for tools that use them. I just never associated the word emoji with this.

[omidkrad]

const logger = {
  info: (msg) => console.info('📢i️nfo', msg),              
  warn: (msg) => console.warn('⚠️WARNING', msg),
  error: (msg) => console.info('❗❗ERROR❗❗', msg),         
  debug: (msg) => console.debug('🦟DEBUG:', msg),
};

[omidkrad]

Looks like the new Windows Terminal supports emojis! 🥳

To use Windows Terminal instead of ConEmu for Cmder, follow the link below:
https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/wiki/Seamless-Windows-Terminal-Integration