Settings ▸ General ▸ Fit New Layers to Work Area (off by default) makes
new text, solid, shape, null and adjustment layers start at the work
area start and end at its end. It applies to Layer ▸ New, the shape
tools and the Pen tool, and wins over Create Layers at Composition
Start Time. Footage and compositions keep their own length.
A text layer's name followed its Source Text whenever the name started with "Text", so a user's
"Text Title" was replaced by the next text edit. The layer now records whether its name follows
the text (`name_follows_text`, optional in the project file). A new text layer named after its
text follows it; a name given at creation or by Rename (Enter, layer.rename, a script's
layer.name, Layer Settings' name) is the user's and stays; renaming to an empty name shows the
text again and follows it; committing the unchanged name changes nothing; copies keep the state.
On-canvas typing and layer.setText share the rule. The name is the text's first paragraph, which
ends at a line feed or a bare carriage return (After Effects' paragraph break).
Projects saved without the state keep the old rule for the names that followed: a name that is
empty, the text's own, or "Text"/"Text 2"... follows; any other name stays. AEP import records a
stored layer name as the user's and no name as following, and names an empty text layer without
a name "Text" instead of "Layer"; export writes no name for a following layer and keeps the name
the user gave, even when it equals the text.
Fixes#3233
Review of the first commit found three places that still asserted the old cleanup: the UI integration
test (which would have failed CI), docs/agents.md, and the comments on TextEdit::created, layer.newText
and the engine test itself.
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