A bug was reported by Nacho_Caballero where emojis are inserted at the beginning of a message instead of after the colon when selected via the emoji picker — for example, typing test : and selecting “
” results in smile: test : instead of test :smile:. sam suspected the issue might be related to recent “textarea” history work and confirmed the bug. Nacho_Caballero also noted phantom edit notifications on their post, which sam clarified were caused by adding an internal “priority medium” tag to flag the issue for developers — suggesting the UI should hide such edits from regular users. david confirmed the bug was indeed caused by the recent textarea history changes and submitted a fix with a new test to prevent recurrence: GitHub Pull Request #17107.
test ) and then type :smile: gets appended after the first :, resulting in test :smile:
smile: gets appended at the beginning of the message, resulting in smile: test :
Oh … this could possibly related to the recent “textarea” history work @david?
Thanks for the repro steps @Nacho_Caballero … confirmed.
Any idea why my post appears edited even though there was no edit? I often see phantom edits like this 
Oh sorry … that is me, I added an internal private priority medium tag to signal to the dev managers that I want to make sure that work starts within 30 days ;p
It is an interesting problem cause we probably want to hide the fact it was edited in cases like that except to the group that can see the edit.
Yup it was - sorry about that! Here’s a fix and a new test which would have caught this issue:
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