message-smileys boundaries

[Garreau, Alexandre]

Hi,

I’ve loved to see message-smileys in effect and how it allows me to keep
show-paren working when I’m writing texts with smileys (I didn’t think
it would be that simple and straightforward), however, I think it would
be interesting to make them regexps, or to put \\< and \\> somewhere
because currently, if I define the smiley “x)”, it means if the last
word in a parenthesis end with “x”, the parenthesis is not matched,
while if I use “ x)”, and the smiley “x)” is at the beginning of a line,
the smiley is not matched…

Are there other solutions?