Tdesktop: Commonly used smileys end up being autocompleted

[ojura]

Hi, a recent update of Telegram Desktop (1.2.14) started autocompleting commonly used plain text smiley faces such as :D or :P to :disappointed or :pensive, which is highly annoying - if you type :D and press enter, you get :disappointed. You have to press escape before pressing enter to cancel autocompletion. Can you please remove this?

[wchristian]

I wanted to make an issue entitled "typing :D has become really hard" but that title is good too.

I don't think the autocomplete should be removed for those necessarily, but it should be a suggestion, not the default thing that happens upon pressing space.

[ojura]

Actually, pressing space is not a problem - pressing enter is, when the message ends with the smiley (in that case, you cause the autocomplete to be accepted instead of sending the message).

[ojura]

A suggestion lifted from IDEs: ctrl-space is a commonly used shortcut for forcing the autocompletion window to be shown. ":D" and ":P" can be added to a list of exceptions for which the autocompletion window _should not_ be shown. If the user desires autocompletion, they could always force it with a shortcut such as ctrl+space. (Perhaps such a shortcut already exists in the desktop client?)

[john-preston]

@ojura Strange, I’ve fixed it to not being shown on :D or :P but I guess I’ve already broke that fix :(

[Gollam]

@john-preston IMHO you should also fix it for ":S", it is also a commonly used one.

[john-preston]

@Gollam Fix was for no suggestions on colon and single capital letters. And it even was discussed in pull requests and worked.

[ojura]

@stek29 a fix is forthcoming?

[john-preston]

@ojura Yes, I'll fix this once again. Didn't have time to see what happened yet.

[wchristian]

Possibly it was tested only if the message starts at the start of the line. The popup only happens if there is at least a space before the :.

[N0x1k]

Can we add another exception for smileys with "nose"? E.g. :-D, :-P, :-S

[stek29]

wait, why does :-------------- get autocompleted as :a?..