diff --git a/src/components/emoji-input/emoji-input.js b/src/components/emoji-input/emoji-input.js
index 2a32b33be4..c425fdf525 100644
--- a/src/components/emoji-input/emoji-input.js
+++ b/src/components/emoji-input/emoji-input.js
@@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ const EmojiInput = {
        * Suggestion is an object containing following properties:
        * displayText: string. Main display text, what actual suggestion
        *    represents (user's screen name/emoji shortcode)
-       * replacementText: string. Text that should replace the textAtCaret
+       * replacement: string. Text that should replace the textAtCaret
        * detailText: string, optional. Subtitle text, providing additional info
        *    if present (user's nickname)
        * imageUrl: string, optional. Image to display alongside with suggestion,
-       *    currently if no image is provided, replacementText will be used (for
+       *    currently if no image is provided, replacement will be used (for
        *    unicode emojis)
        *
        * TODO: make it asynchronous when adding proper server-provided user
@@ -98,22 +98,22 @@ const EmojiInput = {
     if (!input) return
     this.input = input
     this.resize()
-    input.elm.addEventListener('transitionend', this.onTransition)
     input.elm.addEventListener('blur', this.onBlur)
     input.elm.addEventListener('focus', this.onFocus)
     input.elm.addEventListener('paste', this.onPaste)
     input.elm.addEventListener('keyup', this.onKeyUp)
     input.elm.addEventListener('keydown', this.onKeyDown)
+    input.elm.addEventListener('transitionend', this.onTransition)
   },
   unmounted () {
     const { input } = this
     if (input) {
-      input.elm.removeEventListener('transitionend', this.onTransition)
       input.elm.removeEventListener('blur', this.onBlur)
       input.elm.removeEventListener('focus', this.onFocus)
       input.elm.removeEventListener('paste', this.onPaste)
       input.elm.removeEventListener('keyup', this.onKeyUp)
       input.elm.removeEventListener('keydown', this.onKeyDown)
+      input.elm.removeEventListener('transitionend', this.onTransition)
     }
   },
   methods: {
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ const EmojiInput = {
         this.$emit('input', newValue)
         this.caret = 0
         this.highlighted = 0
+        // Re-focus inputbox after clicking suggestion
+        this.input.elm.focus()
         e.preventDefault()
       }
     },
@@ -163,9 +165,13 @@ const EmojiInput = {
       this.resize(e)
     },
     onBlur (e) {
-      this.focused = false
-      this.setCaret(e)
-      this.resize(e)
+      // Clicking on any suggestion removes focus from autocomplete,
+      // preventing click handler ever executing.
+      setTimeout(() => {
+        this.focused = false
+        this.setCaret(e)
+        this.resize(e)
+      }, 200)
     },
     onFocus (e) {
       this.focused = true
diff --git a/src/components/emoji-input/emoji-input.vue b/src/components/emoji-input/emoji-input.vue
index 7756295736..8437a49594 100644
--- a/src/components/emoji-input/emoji-input.vue
+++ b/src/components/emoji-input/emoji-input.vue
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
       <div
         v-for="(suggestion, index) in suggestions"
         :key="index"
-        @click.stop.prevent="replace(suggestion.replacement)"
+        @click.stop.prevent="replaceText"
         class="autocomplete-item"
         :class="{ highlighted: suggestion.highlighted }"
         >
diff --git a/src/components/emoji-input/suggestor.js b/src/components/emoji-input/suggestor.js
index 40c7aa3d01..eb70f29928 100644
--- a/src/components/emoji-input/suggestor.js
+++ b/src/components/emoji-input/suggestor.js
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+/**
+ * suggest - generates a suggestor function to be used by emoji-input
+ * data: object providing source information for specific types of suggestions:
+ * data.emoji - optional, an array of all emoji available i.e.
+ *   (state.instance.emoji + state.instance.customEmoji)
+ * data.users - optional, an array of all known users
+ *
+ * Depending on data present one or both (or none) can be present, so if field
+ * doesn't support user linking you can just provide only emoji.
+ */
 export default function suggest (data) {
   return input => {
     const firstChar = input[0]
@@ -39,7 +49,11 @@ function suggestUsers (users) {
       user =>
         user.screen_name.toLowerCase().startsWith(noPrefix) ||
         user.name.toLowerCase().startsWith(noPrefix)
-      /* eslint-disable camelcase */
+
+      /* taking only 20 results so that sorting is a bit cheaper, we display
+       * only 5 anyway. could be inaccurate, but we ideally we should query
+       * backend anyway
+       */
     ).slice(0, 20).sort((a, b) => {
       let aScore = 0
       let bScore = 0
@@ -59,11 +73,12 @@ function suggestUsers (users) {
       const screenNameAlphabetically = a.screen_name > b.screen_name ? 1 : -1
 
       return diff + nameAlphabetically + screenNameAlphabetically
+      /* eslint-disable camelcase */
     }).map(({ screen_name, name, profile_image_url_original }) => ({
       displayText: screen_name,
       detailText: name,
       imageUrl: profile_image_url_original,
-      replacement: '@' + screen_name
+      replacement: '@' + screen_name + ' '
     }))
     /* eslint-enable camelcase */
   }