Twitter have alias support in the Emoji picker, it means that:
VS, what we have now:
It would be nice to have support for aliases on Discourse.
Note we should probably also add this as a fallback for : completion.
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Going to close this cause reading the code this is already supported, so the problem here is that we simply do not have enough aliases.
So for example :skel will show skull
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While waiting for imports during the day 
I implemented search aliases: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/691174fa8f7c6ed89f0786e079ffa43f8416fb1a
@sam I let you add the aliases you think are needed, the process is simple:
- add aliases here https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/tasks/emoji.rake#L18
- run
bundle exec rake emoji:update - commit
For others reading this, I prefer us going with search aliases in this case, aliases as we already have them will actually generate images, while search aliases is only a mapping of keywords to already existing emojis.
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The Unicode Consortium actually has a lot of resources regarding emojis. One of them is a list of emojis with keywords that could be used as search terms in the emoji picker. And there are even translations for emoji names and keywords.
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