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How do I enter an emoji into a string in Vim?

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Couldn't figure this out. Just need to enter 1 emoji into a string and couldn't figure it out. Unicode is not working. Tried diagraph but didn't work either. Is there some trick to this in Vim? thx!

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Fedreg Avatar asked Oct 26 '16 12:10

Fedreg


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You do not need to install a plugin for this. All you need to do is enter the unicode value of the emoji. You can do that in insert mode with <C-v>. From :h i_ctrl-v_digit:

                        *i_CTRL-V_digit* With CTRL-V the decimal, octal or hexadecimal value of a character can be entered directly.  This way you can enter any character, except a line break (<NL>, value 10).  There are five ways to enter the character value:  first char  mode         max nr of chars   max value ~ (none)      decimal        3        255 o or O      octal          3        377      (255) x or X      hexadecimal    2        ff       (255) u           hexadecimal    4        ffff     (65535) U           hexadecimal    8        7fffffff (2147483647) 

For example, if you want to enter this smiley-face, which has a unicode value of U+1F60A, you could simply type:

<C-v>U1F60A<esc> 

or if you don't want to hit <esc>,

<C-v>U0001F60A 

Just so you know, there's a good chance that it will not render properly in vim, depending on your font. If you are using gvim, you can change :se guifont=*, or in regular vim, changing your consoles font to make it render (assuming you pick a font that can render this particular emoji)

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DJMcMayhem Avatar answered Oct 06 '22 08:10

DJMcMayhem