Bug: can't move cursor if the line begins with a colon

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  1. Open new doc:
  2. Type

:asdf

  1. Try moving the cursor with arrow keys, or enter key

The cursor will not move until after a space is added.

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This happens because colon is used to trigger emoji search, and the arrow keys are captured and used to navigate the emoji search results.

I agree what you’re describing here feels buggy, and I would recommend the following changes:

  • Only capture up/down arrows, not left and right (currently, you can navigate up/down the search results with either combo, but I don’t see a benefit to allowing the use of the left/right keys for this purpose)
  • Only capture arrow keys when showing search results (search results appear once you have typed 3 or more characters, and there is at least one emoji that matches that search).