better parity with slack emoji

[ara4n]

people spend their lives sending me :+1: etc. rather than blindly using emoji-one codes we should make more of an effort to be usable by slack afficionados

[lampholder]

You mean you get the raw text :+1: (which github obvs helpfully renders as a thumbs-up).

Yeah; this shouldn't be too hard to do.

[lampholder]

I think we'd want to support multiple names for emojis, rather than replace :thumbsup: with :+1:.

[ara4n]

This is P1 because it's a horrid experience for people migrating from Slack, and it's trivial to do.

[lukebarnard1]

This seems ambiguous to me. Can someone spell this out? Do we:

1. turn :xxxx: into an emoji when the second ":" is typed?
2. turn :xxxx: into an emoji when the message is sent?
3. improve our emoji meta data to include slack aliases?

[ara4n]

We're talking about option 3 in this one.

There could be a separate option to interpret the second colon as an autocomplete, but that's pretty evil (right up there with autoturning :) into 😄) and should absolutely not be on by default - and should be a separate bug, if it isn't already.

[t3chguy]

EmojiOne already has a list of aliases which are what Slack uses to refer to their emoji by

[t3chguy]

So matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#2085 has landed which does this somewhat, some improvements are needed as noted in the PR summary

[turt2live]

ftr, emojione is being removed (#9281) but this issue still applies in that we need to have more aliases.

[t3chguy]

new emoji data helps with this:

[t3chguy]

as per #5291 (comment) this is resolved, the above referenced PR improves the sorting such that +1 -1 are first results.

[t3chguy]

The remaining above issue is tracked as #7256