Macro emoji (:words: -> custom sentence)

[turt2live]

https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/7505#issuecomment-472070480

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Half-Shot adds:
Have :arbitrary-string: map to whatever the user wants (eg: :hello: to "Hey there! Welcome to #community, how are you?")

[cremesk]

suggestion:

/alias <list|add|del>

/alias list
/alias add <name> <value>
/alias del <name>

eg: /alias add hello "Hey there! Welcome to #community, how are you?"
to use /hello

[turt2live]

@cremesk that would be a different issue. This one is about emoji-like syntax.

[cremesk]

I wrote in the matrix chat and received this:

@t3chguy Sure, that sounds like #9136 for the third time.

[t3chguy]

@turt2live his suggestion is about how to manage the list of macros

[t3chguy]

except to use /hello

@cremesk if you're hell-bent on it being a slash command to execute rather than this more generic approach then you'd need to open another issue

[cremesk]

except to use /hello

@cremesk if you're hell-bent on it being a slash command to execute rather than this more generic approach then you'd need to open another issue

i open a new feature request: #13891

[ShadowJonathan]

I wouldn't recommend using emoji shortcode symbols for this, maybe ;words; instead?

[Palid]

Closing in favor of #19747