honestly i think emojis are nice and all but there was a specific kind of creativity in coming up with the right text emote for the job like o_O or ^_^ or :3
[^w^]
(which works better on Telegram and Discord bc the [^w^] is interrupted somewhat by the unhelpful backticks and manually typing out <kbd> is worse)
although if i were more insufferable on line i'd set a wincompose shortcut for γ=βοΈΏβ=γ. although kaomoji are a whole other deal
oh wincompose seems interesting, kind of like allchars way the fuck back. now i have stuff like (α¦ΛΟΛα¦) and (Β΄γ»Ογ»`) and α( α )α in addition to Γ₯èïçóñ βΒΏ etc on AHK macros that generally start with a /, but this carries the problems of 1. having to remember them (usually not a problem with the diacritics but the kaomoji get fucky because i don't actually use them much) and 2. sometimes they accidentally happen or i have to work around them to type out something specific like a URL.
still better IMO than the problem i had with allchars eating the next two keypresses if you pressed and unpressed control by itself (iirc this shit getting me killed in TF2 is actually part of why i switched to ESDF, lmfao).
right alt seems like a more sensible key to hijack if not impossible to press on accident but do i like to have full control over what macros i have and how they're comprised. however i'm sure the defaults can be changed so i'm gonna have to very strongly consider it. thanks for mentioning it
i have my compose key set to f24 which is bound to one of my random extra keys on my ergodox. the default settings aren't always perfectly intuitive but like 80% of the time i don't have to look up the shortcut if i want ΓΈ or Γ€ or β or what have you
neat. i would probably use the absolutely and totally pointless AppsKey next to altgr were that not already the general mode switch key in my AHK setup
