fix newline backspace behaviour

src/view/com/composer/text-input/TextInput.web.tsx

@@ -211,11 +211,24 @@ export function TextInput({
             const isNotSelection = view.state.selection.empty
             if (isNotSelection) {
               const cursorPosition = view.state.selection.$anchor.pos
-              const textBefore = view.state.doc.textBetween(0, cursorPosition)
+              const textBefore = view.state.doc.textBetween(
+                0,
+                cursorPosition,
+                // important - use \n as a block separator, otherwise
+                // all the lines get mushed together -sfn
+                '\n',
+              )
               const graphemes = new Graphemer().splitGraphemes(textBefore)
 
               if (graphemes.length > 0) {
                 const lastGrapheme = graphemes[graphemes.length - 1]
+                // deleteRange doesn't work on newlines, because tiptap
+                // treats them as separate 'blocks' and we're using \n
+                // as a stand-in. bail out if the last grapheme is a newline
+                // to let the default behavior handle it -sfn
+                if (lastGrapheme !== '\n') {
+                  // otherwise, delete the last grapheme using deleteRange,
+                  // so that emojis are deleted as a whole
                   const deleteFrom = cursorPosition - lastGrapheme.length
                   editor?.commands.deleteRange({
                     from: deleteFrom,
@@ -225,6 +238,7 @@ export function TextInput({
                 }
               }
             }
+          }
         },
       },
       content: generateJSON(richtext.text.toString(), extensions, {