>>> "ESF" == Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Thursday,  2 Sep 2021 at 09:21, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> If I understand your approach correctly you don't see the smileys
>> while you type a message?

> Correct: the gnus smiley package makes emojis appear when you view an
> article but does not affect message composition.

> The alternative, and this being Emacs there is always an alternative,
> would be to insert the emojis directly when composing, as in

> C-x 8 RET slightly smiling face RET
🙂

Indeed this is really cool and was a looking for, I would then try to bind smiley to functions and then to keys, very nice indeed.


> to give you 🙂.  This allows you to insert anything, not limited to
> those emojis listed in the translation table posted earlier in this
> thread including cats etc. 😉

😎