Replace emoticons when sending a message rather than when typing

[SimonBrandner]

Fixes element-hq/element-web#18833
Type: enhancement

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This is a Discord-like behaviour

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Peek.2021-08-31.18-45.mp4

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Reasoning in in element-hq/element-web#18833 (comment)

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Here's what your changelog entry will look like:

✨ Features

• Replace emoticons when sending a message rather than when typing (#6718). Fixes We should consider converting emoticons to emoji when sending rather than when typing element-hq/element-web#18833 and We should consider converting emoticons to emoji when sending rather than when typing element-hq/element-web#18833. Contributed by SimonBrandner.

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[turt2live]

The code looks fine, though the behaviour change is fairly dramatic. It's actually quite annoying when other apps (Messenger, certain email clients, etc) replace on send as what you carefully curated your keystrokes for gets mangled by the app, losing confidence that what you type is what will be sent.

In the short term, there's an advanced (and confusing) setting for autocomplete delay: I'd try raising that a bit and seeing how that feels so we can consider possibly changing the default value there.

[SimonBrandner]

It's actually quite annoying when other apps (Messenger, certain email clients, etc) replace on send as what you carefully curated your keystrokes for gets mangled by the app, losing confidence that what you type is what will be sent.

I tend to prefer this since it's consistent with the emoticon at the end of the line. See element-hq/element-web#18833 (comment). I can create a PR that does the alternative mentioned in the issue.

In the short term, there's an advanced (and confusing) setting for autocomplete delay: I'd try raising that a bit and seeing how that feels so we can consider possibly changing the default value there.

Sorry, I don't think this relates much. Since the autocomplete changes we never autocomplete emoticons (:D, :)), we only autocomplete emoji shortcodes (:smile:, :heart:), so I am not sure how would this apply