This week I have published a Vim syntax and set of scripts that replace Emoji hex Unicode and word codes with symbols via cchar, eg…

Fancy :tophat:

… will result in something similar to…

Fancy 🎩

… while editing MarkDown files. Note, this does not modify the document but instead the buffer while viewing/writing within Vim.

Check the documentation for detailed getting started and usage instructions, the source code is available on GitHub.