>I've struggled with how I place a smile within parens, without the smiley inadvertently closing out the open paren
My solution is either:
- let the app handle auto-emoji'ing the smiley by doing {smiley} {space} {backspace} {closeparen (or continue on)}
- use a different paired punctuation from parenthesis when I want/need to close multiple levels and/or use smileys
Other than that, I feel the ":" is a better separator between your text, and the initiation of the smiley, given it isn't a "hard line".