M3: the caret fallback reads the filled layer around the text; caret opacity marked unmeasured (#2163 review)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Model-Effort: Opus 5.5 checked the findings and wrote

docs/ui-parity.md

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ interaction feel not yet compared.
 | Vector edit mode: bend, paint bucket, lasso, cut, eraser, transform box, point snapping, mirroring | done | a double-click a few pixels off a thin stroke enters edit mode (#646); entering edit mode and picking a region keep the canvas still (#322); a point dropped on another point merges with it, and dropping one end of an open path on the other closes it (a 2-point line's end just moves, #401); Flatten keeps open paths open (#377); paint bucket drags across areas; cut drags divide a shape into layers; delete and heal follows the curve; rounded points are drawn; Shift-click deselects a point at a corner of the box (`vector_behaviour_tests`); several vectors edited at once, Shift-click handles to drag them together, a cap and join per point, rounded points beside curves (`vector_multi_behaviour_tests`); filled regions with the Move tool: the area under the pointer is hatched ("/" lines in the selection colour, clipped by the area's own fill rule, holes left out, gone 3.5 px from a point or 2 px from a segment at any zoom), the line spacing follows octave folding (fitted to measurements at several zoom levels: 8 px at every power-of-two zoom, growing with the zoom and stepping back at √2 · 2ⁿ) and stays fixed to the shape when panning; a click selects the area and its points (moved with it but drawn unselected), Shift adds or removes an area, a press on a selected area drags the whole selection, no hover hatch during drags, a click on an empty spot (a hole) clears it and stays in edit mode; `vector.edit.select {regions}` (`regions_tests`, `vector_regions_tests`); a Bend click on a sharp point between two segments curves it (handles along the line between its neighbours, a third of the way to each, `ops::auto_smooth`), on a curved one sharpens it, a drag sets the handles by hand (#1875); with regions selected, the Fill section (its rows and the colour picker) and `fill.set`, `fill.add`, `fill.remove`, `fill.move` and `fill.paste` edit those regions' own fills, the layer's untouched, or the regions named by `regions: [index, ...]`; Copy fill takes the region's paint, the colour picker and its canvas gradient and crop handles edit it (an image from Upload from computer included; a file dropped on the picker goes to the canvas instead), what belongs to the layer (its fill style, a variable bound to its fill, the image crop button) stays off a region's rows, and `fill.pattern` sets the layer's fill (#1875). Not yet: areas of other layers edited at once |
 | Shape builder (Shift+M) on fills, strokes and open paths; variable width (Shift+W), one side with Alt | done | |
 | Boolean groups: clicked where the result is, double-click or Cmd/Ctrl-click into operands, live results while dragging or editing points, per-operand operations | done | a group past the path operations' caps (250 000 segments, 2 million possible crossings, 4 million segments swept over a fold) draws without its result, with a warning, and Flatten refuses it (#1104); the Design panel's Boolean groups menu leads Union, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude with their own icons, two offset squares with the result filled at reduced alpha (#2003) |
-| Text: point, auto height, fixed; caret, words, lines, IME | done | Backspace or Delete at the start of a list item takes its marker and keeps its level, the paragraph starting where the item's text did ("delete the counter, but keep the same level of indentation", Create bulleted and numbered lists; `text_tail_tests::list_keys_at_list_items`, text crate `behaviour_tests`); max lines on auto-width text keep it auto width, hugging up to that many lines and growing with its longest line ("Text resizing is set to auto height or auto width", Explore text properties; `text_behaviour_tests::max_lines_on_auto_width_text_keeps_auto_width_and_hugs_that_many_lines`); Alt+Enter while editing opens the link at the caret, web and mail links only (`text.openLink`; "press ⌥Option Return/Alt Enter to activate a focused link", Accessibility at Figma; `text_link_tests`); the font picker previews a family on the canvas while hovered (no undo step; Escape restores, #653) and Up/Down step through it (#352); a selection highlight after a line break starts at that line's start and an empty last line shows its mark (#665); carets step over whole emoji and accented letters; colour emoji draw from their colour tables (#300); IME composition replayed in tests as macOS sends it, not yet checked on a Mac (#747); CJK words by script run (no dictionary); vertical trim in Type settings; the caret takes the text's solid fill colour, measured in Figma's web app, 2026-11-09; gradient and image fills (not measured) give a black caret on a light page and a white one on a dark page, not the interface's text colour, which is white in the dark theme and vanished on the default light page (#2190) (#2156; `caret_tests`); no spell check |
+| Text: point, auto height, fixed; caret, words, lines, IME | done | Backspace or Delete at the start of a list item takes its marker and keeps its level, the paragraph starting where the item's text did ("delete the counter, but keep the same level of indentation", Create bulleted and numbered lists; `text_tail_tests::list_keys_at_list_items`, text crate `behaviour_tests`); max lines on auto-width text keep it auto width, hugging up to that many lines and growing with its longest line ("Text resizing is set to auto height or auto width", Explore text properties; `text_behaviour_tests::max_lines_on_auto_width_text_keeps_auto_width_and_hugs_that_many_lines`); Alt+Enter while editing opens the link at the caret, web and mail links only (`text.openLink`; "press ⌥Option Return/Alt Enter to activate a focused link", Accessibility at Figma; `text_link_tests`); the font picker previews a family on the canvas while hovered (no undo step; Escape restores, #653) and Up/Down step through it (#352); a selection highlight after a line break starts at that line's start and an empty last line shows its mark (#665); carets step over whole emoji and accented letters; colour emoji draw from their colour tables (#300); IME composition replayed in tests as macOS sends it, not yet checked on a Mac (#747); CJK words by script run (no dictionary); vertical trim in Type settings; the caret takes the text's solid fill colour, measured in Figma's web app, 2026-11-09; gradient and image fills (not measured) give a black caret on a light surface and a white one on a dark one (the nearest filled layer around the text, else the page), not the interface's text colour, which is white in the dark theme and vanished on the default light page (#2190) (#2156; `caret_tests`); no spell check |
 | Text: wrap style (Auto, Balance, Pretty) | done | per text layer (`wrapStyle` on `node.set`, `text.wrapStyle`, the Type settings control under Vertical trim, inspect, CSS `text-wrap: balance` or `pretty`): Auto breaks greedily; Balance narrows each paragraph as far as it goes without another line, so its lines come out close to the same length (what browsers do for `text-wrap: balance`); Pretty keeps lines full and, when the last line is one word, narrows one of the last four lines just enough to give a word to the lines after it (Explore text properties: "Auto: Figma fits as many words as possible on each line before wrapping to the next", "Balance: Figma distributes text as evenly as possible across every line, so each line is close to the same length", "Pretty: Figma keeps each line full, but adjusts the last four lines to avoid an orphan"). Saved line breaks from a file still win. Not yet included: per-paragraph settings, text-style support and the `.fig` import/export mapping (#1827). Test: `text_behaviour_tests::balance_and_pretty_wrap_styles_break_lines_as_documented` |
 | Text: direction override (Text ▸ Text direction) | done | per paragraph (`ParaList::direction`: auto, ltr, rtl): Text ▸ Text direction ▸ Auto / Left to right / Right to left and `text.direction {direction, ids?}` set the edited paragraphs while editing, else every paragraph of the selected texts; `node.set textDirection` the layer's (or the chars `start`/`end` name); the Type settings control appears once a right-to-left script is in the text or a direction is forced; inspect reports `textDirection` when the paragraphs agree and `lineDirections` otherwise; Developer Mode's CSS writes `direction: ltr` or `rtl` when every paragraph is forced the same way (with `text-align: left` beside `rtl`, as Left is absolute on the canvas); `.fig` import and export carry each line's `sourceDirectionality`, read up to the paragraph count. Layout gives the paragraph its base level, so a forced right-to-left paragraph of Latin letters starts at the right, mirrors its list gutter and indent and orders its runs right to left, and a forced left-to-right paragraph of Hebrew the other way ("By default, Figma automatically handles text direction based on language detection. However, controls are available to override text direction per paragraph", "Go to Text > Text direction. Select Left to right or Right to left", Add right-to-left text). Not included: a direction in text styles (the article names none). Tests: `text_behaviour_tests::text_direction_is_forced_per_paragraph`, `fig::text_direction_tests` |
 | Text: superscript and subscript | done | `sups` / `subs` use the font's own glyphs where it has the feature and every letter or digit of the run gets one; otherwise the standard glyphs are drawn shrunk and raised or lowered by the font's OS/2 superscript and subscript metrics (0.65 em at 0.35 em up or 0.14 em down without them), and a run mixing available and unavailable glyphs is synthesised whole, as Explore text properties says ("Figma draws a synthesized version by using the font's standard version of the character, shrinking it, and positioning it accordingly"; mixed glyphs "all update to the synthesized form for consistency"), #1828; tests `text::tests::superscript_native_or_synthesised_and_never_mixed`, `text_behaviour_tests::superscript_and_subscript_are_synthesised_without_glyphs_for_them` |
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ in the table. `crates/ui-egui/src/shortcut_keys_tests.rs` drives the keys a look
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
-| 2026-11-09 | patch | M3, #2156: the text caret takes the text's solid fill colour (red text, red caret; light grey on a dark frame, light grey, one colour and no inversion), measured in Figma's web app: the fill of the character before the caret (the first one's at the start), opaque; gradient, image and hidden fills (not measured) give a black caret on a light page and a white one on a dark page, not the interface's text colour (white in the dark theme, invisible on the default light page, #2190). Width and height unchanged; collaborators' carets unchanged. Tests: `caret_tests` |
+| 2026-11-09 | patch | M3, #2156: the text caret takes the text's solid fill colour (red text, red caret; light grey on a dark frame, light grey, one colour and no inversion), measured in Figma's web app: the fill of the character before the caret (the first one's at the start); FigCraft draws it opaque (how Figma treats a translucent fill was not measured); gradient, image and hidden fills (not measured) give a black caret on a light surface and a white one on a dark one (the nearest filled layer around the text, else the page), not the interface's text colour (white in the dark theme, invisible on the default light page, #2190). Width and height unchanged; collaborators' carets unchanged. Tests: `caret_tests` |
 | 2026-11-02 | patch | Shortcuts: a Cmd/Ctrl-click on a padding field (the horizontal or vertical pair, or a side with Individual padding open) makes the value typed go to all four sides, in one undo step (Guide to auto layout, Keyboard shortcut guide); a plain click still edits that axis or side alone. A documented gesture row: 134 documented, 133 bound. Test: `padding_individual_tests` |
 | 2026-11-01 | patch | Number fields: dragging the field itself with Alt held scrubs it ("You can also hover the input field itself and hold down the modifier key: Mac: ⌥ Option Windows: Alt", Adjust alignment, rotation, position, and dimensions), with the resize cursor and the label's rates (Alt is the enabler there, so it isn't the fine rate); a click with Alt doesn't open the editor. Found by a documentation audit of the ui-parity rows. Test: `field_tests::alt_held_over_a_field_scrubs_it`. Counts unchanged |
 | 2026-11-02 | patch | M6, #1839: with a shape or frame tool chosen and nothing selected, the arrows show a placement crosshair in the middle of the view and move it by the nudge amounts (`tool.crosshair`), Enter places the object there (`tool.place`), Escape or a tool change takes it away; the canvas draws the crosshair and `ui.inspect` reports it (`tool.crosshair`), the Keyboard shortcuts panel lists the gesture ("Use the arrow keys to activate the crosshair cursor...", Accessibility at Figma). The board Shapes tool places on it too (its 160 px shape centred, as the tool centres a press), and the view pans by the overshoot when the crosshair is nudged past its edge. Tests: `place_crosshair_tests`, `shortcut_keys_tests::arrows_show_and_move_the_placement_crosshair_with_a_shape_tool`. |