We can now transform emojis right in the textarea without contenteditable and we should do it today!!!

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This currently works in our own textareas because these are real characters and not images. THEREFORE we must transform it when someone types an emoji. :satisfied: Should transform into 😆. All we have to do in the JS is just search for words in between two :: with regex and do a replace with the actual matched character. Nothing else would need to be done to make this work. It would be really really easy.

This gif is from GL today:

cc @gl-frontend

Who wants it?

Also we can transform all shortcuts. Like :-), :-P etc.

Here's a codepen showing it working: