Emoji autocomplete now requires spaces between emojis

[inducer]

Steps to reproduce

1. In the message composer, type :thumbs<Tab><Enter>:thumbs.
2. In previous versions (1.7.4-ish?), this used to open the emoji autocompleter a second time. Now it does not, unless you type :thumbs<Tab><Enter><Space>:thumbs.

This is particularly annoying since the Android mobile app (1.0.16) will only render emoji-only text enlarged if the text does not contains spaces (unlike Element web), which makes it difficult to type multi-emoji messages that render consistently across platforms.

Version information

• Platform: web
• Browser: Firefox, 82.0.1
• OS: Debian testing/unstable
• URL: https://element.tiker.net, 1.7.12

[dbkr]

Looks like this actually changed in 1.7.0

[yannicka]

Is this still an issue? The behavior seems to have changed since then.

[SimonBrandner]

This still seems to be an issue, though we changed how emoji behave in the composer quite a bit

[smithfred]

Can confirm, still a problem.

[Peque]

Other IM services that allow consecutive emojis autocomplete without a space in between are: Telegram, Google Meet.

Users that may be used to these services (which are probably more widespread as of today) will find it inconvenient when switching to or trying Element.