Rich Text Editor adds paragraphs (<p>) around macros

A workaround to escape emoticons in Confluence would be to create a user macro which only contains the body. Therefore the content wouldn't get rendered. However, when changing between Markup and Rich Text mode, the Rich Text editor adds a paragraph around the macro and therefore makes it impossible to have inline macros.

Example:

Markup Mode

Inline

Text

> Rich Text:

Inline

Text

> Markup:

Inline

Text