A smiley button moves into the commit box
The commit and reply boxes now carry a smiley button that opens the app's emoji picker. Pick one and it lands at your caret, or over your selection.
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You are three lines into a commit message and want a rocket on the end. A small smiley now sits in the bottom right corner inside the box. Click it, type rocket into the search field, arrow across the grid eight emoji wide, press Enter, and the rocket lands at your caret with the cursor waiting right after it. Select a word first and the emoji replaces it.
Credit goes to hbenabdallah, who plugged the composers into the picker reactions already use instead of growing a second one. The button hands its emoji back after the popover closes, so focus returns to your text instead of the smiley. Insertion counts the result and respects the box's cap. That cap is 4,000 characters for an issue, 40,000 for a commit or a reply. hbenabdallah also taught Enter to stand down while an input method is composing, including Safari's odd 229 key code, so confirming a candidate no longer picks an emoji by accident.
One catch. At the cap the button just shrugs. The emoji does not go in, nothing flashes a warning, and your caret goes back where it was. Delete a character, then pick again.