Multi-edit with text is sometimes similar to a real multi-character-set selection editing but not, and in surprising ways. This is a request that multi-edit with text use real multi-character-set selections.
Specifically:
If a user with multiple text fields selected presses enter, engaging multi-edit, they would obtain text selections within each text field, visualized as such. (Currently we seem to obtain one primary character-level-granularity text selection but retain the text-field level granularity for other text-fields.)
Shortcuts for selection transform (e.g. shift/option arrow) would transform each selection.
Text selection style properties (font, weight, letter-spacing etc.) would be distinguished in the property panel from text frame properties like alignment.
Text properties would behave like any other case of multiple selections, displaying ‘mixed’ in cases where the text selection properties are mixed. e.g. when one selection includes bold text and another include light text, the weight property would be “mixed”. (Currently it displays the value for the primary text selection – regardless of the styles in other selections.)
Changes to text style properties like letter spacing would result in the properties of just the text selections changing. (Currently, changing the style of the primary selection during a multi edit places the parent text-field’s text content w/ style into all other selected text fields.)
Normal text input would replace only the text content in the text-selections.