Fix emoji suggestion list reopening after closing FAB with ESC#95456
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Co-authored-by: huult <huult@users.noreply.github.com>
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Codecov Report✅ Changes either increased or maintained existing code coverage, great job!
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@MelvinBot Please mark it ready and we can remove the comments within the Tests and QA Steps section since the use case is related to the offline scenario. Also, please check all the PR Author checklist items. |
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🤖 Done,
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| // Block the next suggestion calculation so refocusing the composer (e.g. after closing the | ||
| // FAB/action-menu popover with ESC) does not reopen the list the user just dismissed. The flag | ||
| // is one-shot: calculateEmojiSuggestion clears it on its next run, so typing re-enables suggestions. | ||
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If the user dismisses an emoji suggestion with Escape and then continues typing before a focus-driven recalculation consumes this flag, the next calculateEmojiSuggestion() run sees shouldBlockCalc.current, clears it, calls resetSuggestions(), and returns without evaluating the updated text. For example, pressing Escape on :sm and immediately typing i leaves the :smi suggestions hidden until a second edit, which regresses the expected re-show-on-typing behavior; the block needs to be scoped to the unchanged refocus calculation rather than any next calculation.
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Update: all real CI checks are now passing. The only remaining failing check is That check fails until a reviewer completes the PR Reviewer Checklist — it's a human-only step, not something I can tick or push a fix for. There's nothing to fix in the code here. Once a reviewer fills out the reviewer checklist, that check will pass. |
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🤖 Review — the fix is correct, minimal, and targets the right code path. A couple of things to confirm manually before merge (see below). Why it works: the ESC branch now sets the existing one-shot
Please double-check test step 5 (the one tradeoff of this approach): because the flag makes the next Other notes
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🤖 Reviewed codex's comment — it's correct, and your repro confirms it. This is a real regression, and it's exactly the behavior the PR's own Test step 5 promises ("typing another character after dismissing with ESC re-shows suggestions normally"). Why it happens: the block flag is one-shot but not scoped to the refocus case — it's consumed by whatever calculation runs next, including a typed character. Mechanism
The FAB-refocus flow the PR targets works only because no text change happens in between, so the refocus recalc is the one that consumes the flag. Recommended fix — scope the block to the unchanged refocus recalc. Instead of an unconditional one-shot boolean, snapshot the dismissed
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@MelvinBot implement this |
…w emoji suggestions Snapshot the composer value/cursor on ESC instead of unconditionally blocking the next calculation. Only suppress the recalc when the value and cursor are unchanged (the FAB-refocus case); a typed character changes the value and now re-shows suggestions immediately. Add SuggestionEmojiTest covering ESC-then-refocus (stays closed) and ESC-then-type (re-shows). Co-authored-by: huult <huult@users.noreply.github.com>
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🤖 Implemented and pushed in a794361. What changed:
Added a regression test — Local checks (green):
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Failing check analysisThe only failing check is Why the checklist check failsThis PR adds a new file, That dynamically appends 10 "new component" review items to the author checklist. The check requires zero unchecked boxes, and those 10 are unchecked — hence both How to clear itI intentionally don't auto-fill the PR Author Checklist — those boxes exist for the author to consciously confirm, so this is yours to action:
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Nothing has changed since my previous analysis — there's no code fix to push here. The only failing check is still To clear it: in the PR description, tick the 10 |
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@huult could you add manual test evidence to your reviewer checklist please? Also heads up that the C+ workflow changed a bit recently, check out https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/main/contributingGuides/HOW_TO_WORK_WITH_MELVINBOT.md - basically even when working with Melvin, you should approve Melvin's proposal in the bug GH so that an internal engineer gets assigned for proposal acceptance before the PR phase 🙇♀️ |
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Same situation as my earlier comment — nothing here needs a code push. All 37 functional checks pass (typecheck, tests, ESLint, Storybook, builds, perf, etc.). The only red check is It fails because the added test file This one is yours to clear, |
@amyevans Thanks for the reminder! I'll follow the new Melvin workflow from now on. I appreciate the heads up. |
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All checks are green now — nothing to fix. ✅ 38 checks pass and 0 are failing, including both The PR shows |
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🤖 Help site review: no changes required I reviewed the changes in this PR against Expensify's help site files under This is a narrow bug fix for a UI interaction glitch — after typing an emoji shortcode (e.g. It does not change any documented feature, setting, label, tab, or user-facing workflow. The only emoji references in the help site are generic (adding an emoji from the message bar, status emoji) and none document the shortcode suggestion list or its keyboard-dismissal behavior. So there is nothing to update, and I did not create a draft docs PR. If you disagree and think a help article should cover this behavior, let me know which article and I'll draft the update. |
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🤖 Help site review: no changes required I reviewed the changes in this PR against the help site files under This PR is a narrow bug fix for a keyboard-interaction edge case: after typing an emoji shortcode (e.g. Why no docs update is needed:
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Explanation of Change
After typing an emoji shortcode such as
:smand pressing ESC to dismiss the emoji suggestion list, opening the+action menu / FAB popover and closing it with ESC made the dismissed emoji list reopen.Pressing ESC only called
resetSuggestions(), which clears the visible list but leaves the:smtext and cursor in the composer and records nothing about the dismissal. Closing the popover refocuses the composer, which flipsisComposerFocusedback totrueand re-runs the suggestion-calculation effect against the unchanged:smtext — regenerating the identical list.This change sets the existing one-shot
shouldBlockCalc.current = trueflag in the ESC branch oftriggerHotkeyActions, right beforeresetSuggestions().calculateEmojiSuggestionalready consumes and clears that flag on its very next run, so the refocus-triggered recalculation is suppressed (the list stays closed), while typing another character or moving the cursor immediately re-enables suggestions.Scope is limited to
SuggestionEmoji.tsxfor now, as requested by the assignee. The@mention list (SuggestionMention.tsx) has the same structure and could receive the same one-line guard in a follow-up if desired.This implements MelvinBot's approved proposal.
Fixed Issues
$ #95441
PROPOSAL: #95441 (comment)
Tests
:smin the composer to show the emoji suggestion list.+(create) action button / FAB, then press ESC to close the popover.i) after dismissing with ESC re-shows suggestions normally.Offline tests
Same as tests.
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:smin the composer to show the emoji suggestion list.+(create) action button / FAB, then press ESC to close the popover.i) after dismissing with ESC re-shows suggestions normally.PR Author Checklist
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