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Re:The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) by vladvasiliu on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:36AM (#27830622)
This reminds of something that aggravates me to no end and cannot turn off: emoticons / emojis. I never use those but it keeps offering those by switching typing focus to the popup.

The issue comes from my main language being French. And in French, for some reason, there has to be a space between the word and the colon.

But in Teams, and even Outlook Web, whenever I put a space and colon to introduce a list on the line below, so I type <space><colon><enter>, I end up with a freakin' smiley, so I have to go back, delete it, and put a colon in again.

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Re:The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) by nescioquid on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:25PM (#27835658)
This floored me: when the app decides you typed an emoji, you can undo (ctrl+z) to get back to what you actually typed. That never would have occurred to me to try, simply because the mental model I have of "undo" pertains to things I did, not the app.
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