Element-web: Automatically replace emoji shortcodes with emoji

[k80w]

Currently, sending a message containing :grinning: without clicking on the emoji in the autocomplete palette will cause :grinning: to be sent in plain text. It would be convenient if, when messages are sent, shortcodes were automatically replaced with emoji.

This should be separate from "Automatically replace plain text emoji"

[sirocyl]

I'd like to bump this up - I've been experiencing this issue as well, and it just adds unnecessary steps to the emoji userflow - like, ensuring to click on or select an emoji with the TAB key when you've already composed its shortcode in markup.

Attached: an example of what I'm talking about, in a conversation with someone who gave me permission to use this recording.
There are other emoji palette UX snags in this gif, too, but it exhibits this particular issue plainly.

[martindale]

Subscribed to this, hoping to see this feature get some love. As a daily user, would be a huge quality of life improvement.

[Twi1ightSparkle]

May also want to add the recognition of for example (y) as 👍

[t3chguy]

@Twi1ightSparkle that would be a suggestion for https://github.com/milesj/emojibase/ which is the source of all the shortcuts we provide

[Twi1ightSparkle]

https://github.com/milesj/emojibase/issues/55