hexchat-emoji

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 :smile: :snake:

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 sudo to 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.

License

MIT