It's just complicate to select a coherent Emoji for that (in the edit comment). My opinion is that such icons may be selected from a list as part of the Github "tagging" system, these icons may then appear automatically (but as there are multiple candidate tags, each one configured with its own color, there may as well be multiple emojis). The problem with the approach is that such leading emoji are difficult to edit once the GitHub edit is committed. Some of the emojis selected look very strange, or may be not the best ones (e.g. the pizza slice chosen). Some edits could not have a suitable emoji selected (e.g. merge commits should be icons like an Y-shaped arrow with two trails but one leading arrow: such isonc is already used by GitBug, but not in that description field). I bet this icon/emoji should be a separate field. And it could also allow setting background/foreground color for the text using a convenient palette (tested also in presence of colored links: not all background/text colors are suitable, as seen on color option for "Tags").
This is not just for GitHub: you have an equivalent of GitHub tags, with classification "Labels" in Gmail for example. Emojis start being used too in Email subject lines (but most often only by spammers trying to defeat some antispam filters: most often, emojis in email subjects are strong indicators of spam or very harassing commercial ads! As they have no actual legal meaning, advertizers tend to use these emojis just to avoid publishing a statement that would be legally binding to them: these emojis are almost oalways defective and give false information, they are also too proeminent, as if the email senders were more important than everything else than the recipients are really interested in; they are almost always unnecessarily distractive, and not as important as what senders think). 2018-08-09 9:09 GMT+02:00 Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode <[email protected]>: > Very amusing. But interesting how it catches your eye when scanning a list. > > Mark > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 7:37 AM, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> First time I'm seeing this (maybe others have seen this already): >> >> https://github.com/wei/pull >> >> Emoji being used in commit messages for classifying the nature of the >> commit – bug fixes, feature additions etc >> >> Now *that*'s a nice creative usage of emoji IMO… >> >> I see they haven't used them always as the actual emoji characters but >> sometimes as :coloned-tags: (or what do you call it) but I presume the >> GitHub system will convert it to the actual characters before >> displaying… >> >> -- >> Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा 𑀰𑁆𑀭𑀻𑀭𑀫𑀡𑀰𑀭𑁆𑀫𑀸 >> >> >
