if you press the smiley button it no longer does <space>smiley<space> so if you don't add the 1st space yourself it just comes out like:) that instead of the word then the smiley. This seems to have been introduced with this patch to the javascript: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-288558.html https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-294548.html
Fixed in cvs