Support reacting literally with non-Emojis #219

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opened 2025-10-14 15:43:00 -06:00 by navan · 0 comments

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Originally created by @ulyssa on 8/13/2024

Folks were talking about custom reactions and literal text reactions in the #offtopic:archlinux.org room earlier tonight. This PR changes :react/:unreact to prompt whether you want to use the literal text when it's not a shortcode, and allows using :react!/:unreact! to force it to be interpreted literally. (So :react wave sends the 👋 Emoji, and :react! wave reacts with the literal text "wave".)

I'd love to eventually support something like MSC4027, but that'll have to wait for some future PR.

*Originally created by @ulyssa on 8/13/2024* Folks were talking about custom reactions and literal text reactions in the `#offtopic:archlinux.org` room earlier tonight. This PR changes `:react`/`:unreact` to prompt whether you want to use the literal text when it's not a shortcode, and allows using `:react!`/`:unreact!` to force it to be interpreted literally. (So `:react wave` sends the :wave: Emoji, and `:react! wave` reacts with the literal text "wave".) I'd love to eventually support something like [MSC4027](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4027), but that'll have to wait for some future PR.