Minimal character count for autocomplete is incorrect if preceded with an unfinished autocomplete match

[mlewand]

Type of report

Bug

Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

1. Open any editor with Emoji plugin enabled.
2. Focus the editor.
3. Empty the contents (e.g. ctrl/cmd+a, del).
4. Type :smiling_face.
5. Press esc key to cancel completion, so it doesn't get replaced by a emoji.
6. Press space.
7. Type :smi.

Expected result

Dropdown with emoji appears.

Actual result

No dropdown appears.

Other details

Interestingly if you continue the typing till you have :smiling_face_ (so that it is longer than the first token) the autocomplete appears.

This issue is very, very awkward. At first I thought that matching doesn't work at all, but then it seemed to me that it works, but minimal charcount is considered based on preceding match.

I presume that the issues is in autocomplete plugin rather than emoji.

Looks like it's a regression in 4.10.1 as I can't reproduce it with 4.10.0. I guess that it got introduced with #2195.

• Browser: Any
• OS: Any
• CKEditor version: 4.10.1

[engineering-this]

I can reproduce it.

[engineering-this]

Might be related to #2352.

[jacekbogdanski]

I closed the mentioned issue (#2352) as a duplicate thus it's the same one. However, I believe that this issue is more related to the emoji plugin than autocomplete itself thus mentions works as expected with the same use case.

[jacekbogdanski]

The issue has been introduced by b264124

[mlewand]

Fixed with #2452.