Simple example: I have a textarea and want to provide additional behavior to it: do something on enter key and go to next line on shift + enter

I suppose that I should provide additional directive to add that behavior. And I've done this: http://jsbin.com/oruvuy/1/edit

P.S. One hackie thing seems strange for me: I invoke $digest() manually. Is it ok? Any thoughts?

JS:

angular.module('Chat', [])
  .directive('enterSubmit', function () {
    return {
      restrict: 'A',
      link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
        var submit;

        $(element).on({
          keydown: function (e) {
            submit = false;

            if (e.which === 13 && !e.shiftKey) {
              submit = true;
              e.preventDefault();
            }
          },

          keyup: function () {
            if (submit) {
              scope.$eval( attrs.enterSubmit );

              // flush model changes manually
              scope.$digest();
            }
          }
        });
      }
    };
  });

function ChatCtrl($scope) {
  $scope.messages = [{
    text: 'Sample Message',
    datetime: new Date()
  }];

  $scope.add = function () {
    $scope.messages.push({
      text: $scope.message,
      datetime: new Date()
    });
    $scope.message = '';
  };

  $scope.message = '';
}

<body ng-controller="ChatCtrl">

  <h1>Leave message:</h1>
  <form>
    <div class='hint'>Click &lt;Enter&gt; to submit :)</div>
    <textarea
      cols="30"
      rows="5"
      ng-model="message"
      enter-submit='add()'
    ></textarea>
    <br />
    <button type="submit" ng-click="add()">Send message!</button>
  </form>

  <h3>Messages list:</h3>
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