input icons into text fields via :icon_name: or similar.

[pdpt]

TL;DR

Typing

some text :fulgoria: other text

would give

some text other text

What?

In several text inputs, there is a little button to insert icons. this is a great feature that I use all the time. However, having to use the mouse is often inconvenient. Many places have adopted using colons to insert icons or similar images, this would be a nice convenience. Obviously colons are just one syntax, but having a method to input a string that gets converted is the main idea.

My solution would change the following text:

how text input looks now

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into:

replacing the :icon_name: with the actual icon.

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Why?

Adding icons to labels and names is very useful, but the current method is clunkier than it needs to be.

[eugenekay]

Feature exists: Rich Text; the Picker dialog is just providing a shortcut for convenience. You can copy-paste the resulting icon to Notepad to see what it looks like internally. Eg: [planet=fulgora]

[Koub]

[Koub] Moved to Implemented Suggestions.