Illustrator should prioritize editing the currently focused text over other text objects when placing a cursor or making a text selection
If I have a text box selected and switch to the text tool, why does Illustrator assume I want to select a non-selected text box to edit text in? It should prioritize the selected text box over non-selected text boxes.
Wes Rand
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It is also frustrating if you have a layer in the layers panel selected which is locked and you then try and select text in a text box on a non-locked layer using the text tool. Illustrator will not allow that -- it forces the user to select the layer the text box is on first before selecting the text.
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I have had this happen often and is probably an intentional design but I think it is bad design. If I have two text boxes that are overlapping but the text in the boxes is not overlapping, the text tool should give priority when selecting text to more than which text box is above the other text boxes. If I have a text box already selected it should give that box priority over a text box that is above it. Or if you try to select text in a text box with text but a text box above it with no text in the selection area it should select the text in the text box that has text in the selection area.
Yesterday I was attempting to edit text in a text box but Illustrator kept putting the cursor in a slightly overlapping text box that had no text in the area of my selection. I was dragging a selection from outside the overlapping text box to an area that was covered by the overlapping text box. It is these sorts of minor time wasting work arounds that make Illustrator so frustrating to work with.
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You mean when you click your already selected box with Type tool, it can accidentally start editing text in adjacent non-selected?
Can you explain in details what you offer and why?
