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rofimoji is by now quite stable and contains all of the features I ever imagined for it. Thus, new releases aren't very exciting anymore (or frequent). This one brings:

• Updated data files for Unicode 15.1 (including the new emojis), FontAwesome and NerdFonts.
• Avoided crash when there was no typer available, but it's also not needed (#158).
• A bug fix for Fuzzel (#156).
• Updates to the documentation.
• The first additional emoji description (#151).

As usual, thanks to everyone who contributed (@tranzystorek-io, @vain, @latipun7, @ncfavier) or who just uses rofimoji 🙏 I hope you enjoy it 😊

This smaller release brings mostly some bugfixes, but the major new feature is a forced emoji representation. Now your ❤ should look more like ❤.

As usual, thanks to all the people who helped with this release! 🙏

As becomes the norm, this release contains several new features and changes:

• If you don't want to remember hotkeys, you can use --action menu now to comfortably choose what rofimoji should do with your characters.
• There's now an example rofi theme for a grid layout, together with a --hidden-descriptions parameter to only show the characters while still searching through the descriptions.
• The --files parameter now supports globbing with *.
• Emojis are now split into several files so you don't need to load flags if you never use them.
• Emojis are now updated to v15, FontAwesome is 6.2.0, NerdFonts 2.2.2 and Gitmoji 3.13.0
• Lots of changes behind the scenes, with a different code structure and Poetry

And, as usual, thanks to everyone who opens pull requests or issues or just uses rofimoji 😊🙏 I've started this project a bit over five years ago, when there was no real alternative. To think that it's steadily been growing since then, adding the cool features I've dreamed of and lots of ones I didn't even think of, being used by so many people is truly amazing. Thank you! 🤯😊

This pre-release is a release candidate for the next major version, in order to iron out the last kinks coming from the major changes (and to give packagers a chance to test it):

• rofimoji is now managed with poetry
• a large refactoring and splitting of the code base
• and finally, an example for a rofi theme

Please report any bugs you find! 🙂

rofi changed its behavior slightly in the last versions so that empty checkboxes (◻) are shown when multi-select is enabled, which rofimoji does. As this is quite distracting, this new version of rofimoji disables the empty checkboxes. There are still markers if multiple entries are selected.

Thanks goes out to @alpheratz0! 🙏

This version adds Gitmoji and Font Awesome 6! Also, there's an important bugfix if you use rofimoji for whitespace characters.

Thanks to @tusqasi, @owenthewizard, @jakubkaczor and @CMurtagh-LGTM! 🙏

This release of rofimoji brings a lot of new characters, for example emoji v14 but also all of CJK. Most importantly, however, you can now extend the provided files with extra characters or additional descriptions: Simply store your extensions in ${XDG_DATA_DIR}/rofimoji/data/<filename>.additional.csv (to extend the <filename> file), and they will be automatically picked up!

Please also note that --rofi-args is finally gone. You should have migrated to --selector-args some time ago 😉

As always, some thanks is in order: This time to @nathanalderson for making rofimoji support multiple actions with one call 🙏

Thanks to motivation, ideas and even some code from @stefanradziuk, rofimoji can finally order all characters by their usage, with most often used ones first and preferring recently used ones, too! If you don't want to use this feature, you can deactivate it with --no-frecency.

As always, if you have any problems with this release, please open an issue.

There have been several small changes and important bugfixes:

• --rofi-args is now deprecated. It still works, but will be removed in a later version. Please use the more generic --selector-args instead (that also works for wofi).
• Keybindings are configurable.
• The file with recent choices will not grow infinitely anymore.
• Two major bugs with the wofi integration have been fixed, and wofi should offer a much better experience.

Thanks for these features and bugfixes go out to @major, @s3lph, @desbma, @Kqzz and @DMBuce

With this release, the call to xclip no longer hangs rofi when called as a mode (#79). Also, rofimoji gains a new print action that just outputs the chosen characters to stdout (#75).