Feature request: Add a command to select emoji only about insert-unicode HOT 7 CLOSED

Awesome, thank you! 🎉

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Works great, thank you x2!

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There are new commands in v.0.15.0:

• Insert Emoji (insert-unicode.insertEmojiText)
• Insert Emoji as Decimal Code (insert-unicode.insertEmojiDecimalCode)
• Insert Emoji as Hex Code (insert-unicode.insertEmojiHexCode)

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Hmm, is the emoji filter working correctly? When I use "Insert Emoji" I do get many fewer characters, but I still get some non-emoji characters:

• "Insert" → search for "arrow" → lots of unicode characters with no emoji results near the top (expected)
• "Insert Emoji" → search for "arrow" → emoji results are now visible (expected), but still a small set of non-emoji results too (not expected)

Insert	Insert Emoji

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Those are all part of the Emoji standard.

Things like the selection of emoji you see in messengers or OS provided pickers are probably hand selected because as you noticed, there are many. What renders as a fancy image is up to the font.

Unfortunately this is probably the only reasonable reduction I can do on my end without using some unofficial and thus arbitrary listing. If there are commonly used lists available, maybe a setting could be added which controls the Emoji commands, so the default value would be "standard" and other named sets could be selected as well.

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I guess there is one wrinkle that could be adjusted still: Some Emoji have a "qualified" and "unqualified" version, and the former is supposed to be displayed as a picture rather than a plain icon. The "unqualified" versions could be filtered out, though that still is no guarantee for pretty pictures as that depends on the font's completeness.

E.g. not all arrows implement the picture version in my default Windows font:

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List is now reduced to this:

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