Agreed.

Seriously.. that crap is so annoying. A lot of the time I end my message with :P :D or :I which are standard ascii emotes used all over the web.

However using any of those in Steam chat now brings up autocomplete for the emoticons I have of & ... and then hitting enter, which would normally just send the message as I have written it, instead converts those standard ascii emotes at the end of my message into steam emoticons AND submits the message.

It's bloody obnixious and really poor design IMO. Let us turn autocomplete emoticons off please!

This is beyond the most annoying feature i've ever seen.

Bump.

IMO the suggested option should not disable autocompletion entirely but instead require you to press arrows to choose an emoticon, otherwise leave the text as is.

Absolutely agree. So often I use :D smile, this "features" is destroying and changing my personality and the way I express myself. FIX dat crap, it's just few lines of code.

Maybe there is a Steam Skin that can take care of this crap?

I would like to politely bump this because the autocomplete has annoyed the ♥♥♥♥ out of me numerous times already.

watch it not getting any attention, since it doesnt affect the bottom line

I'm going to bump this as well as this autocomplete for emojis is bull pucky. But I agree with Marry Christmas, if it costs more to fix then they would make I am sure they don't GAS.

Extremely annoying!

If I type :P in chat it pops up with suggestions, and when I hit enter it chooses the one my mouse is hovering over. My mouse is usually somewhere over the chat window so this gets really annoying having to backspace the emoticon and re-type what I wanted to.
I usually end the sentence with :P or :D or :) etc.. probably a lot of people also do.

Please option to disable!

+1, i cannot belive how steam chat is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥ its not just this

To be fair, in general steam chat is much better than before. But it seems to be missing a small set of excruciatingly obvious features in addition to the autocomplete thingy:
1. Delete messages (Sending something private in the wrong window by accident, etc.).
2. Modify messages.
3. "Your message was seen" info (with option to turn off, of course).
4. "Normal" emojis out of the box.

+1

and rly steam just dont bring in new features without also adding the ability to disable them, this is a simple concept that would severely decrease negative feedback

+1

I hate that so much .... especially if the damn emoji has a mile long name and you have to delete that ♥♥♥♥ just to get to that D you wanted ... sigh

Just realized, it seems to only auto-complete an emoji if the list of possibilities is shorter than 5 (ish). Glad I bought all those pig emojis, they make my ":D"-list larger :D

Have to watch out where to place my cursor though, because if that is accidentally where the list pops up, it selects one immediately as well.

volvo pls fix

Huge +1. Every time I use a : in a chat, that annoying emote window pops up & blocks 75% of the chat window! If i want to add an emote - there is ALREADY A HANDY BUTTON IN THE GUI.

Honestly, whoever designed this awful UI should be fired.