Edit a message to no content should delete the message

[SethFalco]

Your use case

What would you like to do?

I want to delete a message by editing its contents to be empty.

Why would you like to it?

It can be easier to delete a message by editing the message and removing all content.

For example, to delete the previous message would just be:

• UP (edit previous message)
• CTRL + A (select all)
• CTRL + X / BACKSPACE / DELETE (remove the content)
• ENTER (prompt for deletion reason)

How would you like to achieve it?

On the client-side, editing a message to have empty contents should instead leave the edit view and prompt to delete the message instead.

Have you considered any alternatives?

N/A

Additional context

The following applications have this behavior already:

• Discord
• Slack
• Rocket.Chat

[SimonBrandner]

Thank you for your report.

It seems you're not the only one to have come across this bug, as it's been reported previously - see #11024. I'm going to close this issue now so we can focus on #???. Please watch, vote or comment on #11024 if there is any additional information you can provide.