Computer: Instant Messaging
Inline Smiley Lookup   (+3, -3)  [vote for, against]
no more searching

Not sure whether this is already a feature or whether it's just my IM Client, but every now and then I want to use an emoticon not built in to my IM client, but by the time I've found something suitable in google and cut and paste, the spontaneity is lost.

I propose that you can enable one click smileys e.g. if you type (glass of milk) your client will go away and find an emoticon from your preferred icon source, and insert it inline.
-- neilp, Dec 20 2004

~bz [bristolz, Dec 22 2004, last modified Jun 28 2005]

Ah, you must have forgotten the original emoticons, from the good ol' BBS days ":-)"

Have a "~C" for the one-click tiny graphic search function.

(That would be a steaming-hot bun.)
-- contracts, Dec 20 2004


thanks [contracts] I remember the normal ones, but have a new found requirement to make some news ones, it seems de rigeur.
have you seen (%) in MSN Messenger?
-- neilp, Dec 20 2004


oddly, an undocumented hand-cuffs feature.
-- neilp, Dec 20 2004


thanks [bristolz] that's.. well something I've never seen before. an in line graphic in the HB.. that's what you meant !.
-- neilp, Dec 22 2004



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