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Emoji addon for HexChat
About
hexchat-emoji allows you to use Slack-like emoji notation in HexChat.
This input:
This is a message with emojis 😄 🐍
Becomes this message:
This is a message with emojis 😄 🐍
Installation
Python 3 plugin
Ensure you have Python 3 plugin installed in HexChat, check in Window > Plugins and Scripts.
Ubuntu: apt install hexchat-python3
Fedora: Present in hexchat package, no dependencies needed
openSUSE: zypper in hexchat-plugins-python3
Python 3 plugin name may vary on another distros.
Emojis library
Ensure you have emojis library installed in your system, check with pip3 freeze | grep emojis.
pip3 install -U emojis
This command may require
sudoto install in some distros
HexChat emoji addon
Copy emoji.py to ~/.config/hexchat/addons.
HexChat addons path may vary your distro.
Restart HexChat.
Settings
Emoji addon has a few settings you can change. They are located and documented in the top of emoji.py as constants.