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Aiden Guinnip
New Member
September 30, 2026
Question

Pasting Over Selection When Annotating Discards Edits

When creating or editing an annotation, when you “Paste Over Selection” (⇧⌘V) it discards your edit, closes the annotation, and pastes the content on the canvas. I want it to paste the content into the annotation, as if I pressed the normal “Paste” (⌘V).

What’s interesting, is that when creating/editing a comment, it at least prevents the paste from happening (it doesn’t paste anything nor close the comment), retaining your edit. That’s better, but why not just paste the text into the comment.

I’m conditioned to use the “Paste Over Selection” (⇧⌘V), when pasting text, as usually it “pastes as plain text”, which is what I want most of the time.

3 replies

Jaycee Lewis
Figmate
Figmate
September 30, 2026

Hey hey ​@Aiden Guinnip 🤩 Thanks for flagging this. I appreciate you including your details.

I set up a quick repro. Does this match what you are seeing (more or less)?

I’ll verify if ⇧⌘V should work as expected (paste without formatting). And I’ll get the annotation “jailbreaking” itself out of its frame reported as a bug. 

I appreciate YOU 🙌 — Jaycee

Aiden Guinnip
New Member
October 1, 2026

Yes, that’s exactly it. Thanks for looking into it!

Aiden Guinnip
New Member
October 2, 2026

And actually, this happens when replying to comments as well. Not when creating the comment, but when replying.