# Make emoji suggestions appear continuously

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-emoji-suggestions-appear-continuously/45756>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [16. Juni 2016 um 14:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-emoji-suggestions-appear-continuously/45756 "2016-06-16T14:14:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![P16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b19c9b/32.png) [@P16](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P16)\
**Post date:** [16. Juni 2016 um 14:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-emoji-suggestions-appear-continuously/45756/1 "2016-06-16T14:14:35Z")

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Some messaging apps have a feature where emojis pop up continuously (based on the keystrokes) between the keyboard and the chat screen. For example, when you type the word coffee on Line, you have a small popup containing emojis with the ‘coffee’ keyword:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/d/4dbb4859728ac5eb672b24f9499f81f61decaccb.png)

Similar to how on discourse emojis pop up when we start with a : colon like below

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/1/417642a8bbb1d2fe3d724cffe8badc107ca1f525.png) 

On my local, I have made it so that whenever users type a word, the emoji menu pops up as above, but without the need to start with a colon

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/7/a70844043c39f82ee73d94e2bd37da0157256e13.png)

Letting the user choose while typing might be a better method in my opinion - the user can continue writing as before or he can choose to change a word to an emoji.

If the community and devs like this feature, I can submit a PR.

🙂

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