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This apparently no longer works with the latest Slack release, which is really annoying.
Please ignore that last comment – apparently there is some circumstance in which this no longer works, but I tried it just now (I have been relying on this trick for a long time now) and it worked. When it wasn’t working, all that happened was that it highlighted the message, but did not go into edit mode. Subsequent up-arrow presses simply highlighted messages further up the list. I don’t think it was a time-out, because I did try it in a timely manner, but did click around the interface before doing so. Still, it would be nice to know what caused it to fail.
This apparently no longer works with the latest Slack release, which is really annoying.
Please ignore that last comment – apparently there is some circumstance in which this no longer works, but I tried it just now (I have been relying on this trick for a long time now) and it worked. When it wasn’t working, all that happened was that it highlighted the message, but did not go into edit mode. Subsequent up-arrow presses simply highlighted messages further up the list. I don’t think it was a time-out, because I did try it in a timely manner, but did click around the interface before doing so. Still, it would be nice to know what caused it to fail.