# Make emoji suggestions appear continuously

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-emoji-suggestions-appear-continuously/45756>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [6월 16, 2016, 2:14오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-emoji-suggestions-appear-continuously/45756 "2016-06-16T14:14:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [6월 16, 2016, 7:42오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-emoji-suggestions-appear-continuously/45756/14 "2016-06-16T19:42:54Z")

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I’m wondering about resource use. i.e. on-demand (a : was typed) vs. polling (a key was pressed)

There are how many emojis now, 1K+ ?

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/emoji/db.json](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/emoji/db.json)

Having a composer “key” event run against all the possibilities seems like it could have a negative impact to me.

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