There are various ways to make inserting emojis easier.
You can pull up the emoji keyboard by hitting ctrl+⌘+space
You can pull up the emoji keyboard by hitting Win+.
You can press Super to search for the emoji name, but only the first 5 matches are displayed. This works for "book", but not for "bug".
Launch the "Characters" application.
You can show a list of emoji to copy to your system clipboard using the Emoji Selector Gnome extension. This extension recognises commit message emoji labels like 'refactor', 'version', 'wip'.
Install package for autocomplete-emojis. In the package settings, check the box for "Enable Unicode Emojis".
Atom can also help with using emoji in commit message by installing git-plus
Install package for GithubEmoji.
Install package for Vim-emoji.
Add set completefunc=emoji#complete to .vimrc and then run emoji completion with CTRL-X CTRL-U
Create an .npmrc file and set the message value.
message = "🔖 %s"Install emoji-cheat-sheet-plus.
Bring up the emoji buffer with:
M-x emoji-cheat-sheet-plus-insert