Intellisense should trigger on the character after :

[Tyriar]

Using : at the end of a paragraph will trigger the intellisense and insert the 👍 emoji instead of adding a new line. Instead I'd like the popup to appear automatically only on :+ for :+1:, not :.

[mattbierner]

Yes, I agree that the following cases should never auto trigger suggestions with you type the ::

a:|
a:| b

However for other cases such as:

:|
a :|
a :| b

I personally like having suggestions triggered without typing a first character. This is also how github inputs work.

For 0.1.0 I've tried to stop showing completions in those first set of cases. I've also added a showOnColon setting that disables automatic triggering on : altogether. If you do this, I recommend having quick suggestions enabled or else you have to manually trigger emoji suggestions while typing.

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Looking into this issue, I ran into a few limitations of our current completion API, including:

• Trigger characters can only be single letters. You cannot register a completion provider that automatically shows after you type : and then c for example

• Trying to work around the first issue, my next thought was the filter the completion items in the provider so that even if we triggered on :, the UI would only start showing emoji results after the c is typed. As far as I can tell, this is not possible

• No way to tell if a completion provider was triggered by a trigger character or by some other method

Maybe I'm overlooking something simple here but I found that getting the trigger behavior that you described was way harder than it should have been, and the current implementation is still not correct