How to disable emoji pop-up in issue editor?

[dpifke]

• Gitea version (or commit ref): 1.11.4
• Git version: 2.17.1
• Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04
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Description

99.99999% of the time when I type a colon (:), I want to insert a colon. I don't ever want emoji in my issue descriptions, and the pop-up is super-annoying.

I tried to disable the pop-up by setting REACTIONS to an empty string in the [ui] section of app.ini. But this didn't work.

If disabling these via REACTIONS is not practical, an additional configuration option is needed. (I'm OK with reactions being available via a dedicated UI button but not every time I type colon.)

[techknowlogick]

REACTIONS are for reacting to tickets, not for emoji within the ticket. For example, I "reacted" to your ticket with the rocket emoji.

[dpifke]

Ah, perhaps I'm confused because the first two emoji which pop up when I type colon are +1 and -1, and the behavior started when I upgraded Gitea from a version which didn't have reactions. My issue is with the text-entry pop-up, not the concept of reacting to issues.

[silverwind]

I guess no one would oppose a PR that adds a ui.ENABLE_EMOJI_DROPDOWN, defaulting to true.

[mrsdizzie]

Maybe a config option that lets you decide what tribute items to enable/disable. Right now I think we just have usernames and emojis, but I could see issues being a future addition as Github has. with all of them defaulting to on.

[silverwind]

Right, maybe a ui.DISABLE_MARKDOWN_EDITOR_DROPDOWNS = emoji,username (default empty). It's a runtime setting so it needs to be handed down to JS via window.config.

[septatrix]

I think a delayed popup like it Github seems to use is preferable. The popup does not steal keyboard input or similar but sometimes can be annoying when typing fast.

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[wyattoday]

We also run into this. We frequently type colons, and get random emoticons throughout issues if we're not watching the screen while we type.

Not great UI. So, this is a real bug that needs fixing.

[silverwind]

I think we should just make the : popup trigger smarter: It should only trigger the popup when the preceding character is either whitespace, newline or if there is no content yet. That alone should eliminate a lot of false triggers on the dialog.

The code for this is in tribute.js. If anyone wants to contribute, I think this would be a good first issue.