M1: pick select: Tab while the keyboard selection box shows walks the layer tree with a pink outline, Space selects (#1836)

Tab or the chord again switches the box to a pick cursor; Tab/Shift+Tab move between sibling layers, Enter/Shift+Enter into and out of a layer, Space selects, Escape or a canvas press ends it; ui.key takes the same keys. Gesture and parity rows, catalog, test, docs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

crates/engine/src/keymap.rs

@@ -359,6 +359,10 @@ pub static GESTURES: &[(Group, &str, &str, &str)] = &[
     (Zoom, "Zoom around the pointer", "⌘ scroll", "Ctrl+scroll"),
     (Selection, "Deep select", "⌘ click", "Ctrl+click"),
     (Selection, "Measure to the selection", "Hold ⌥", "Hold Alt"),
+    (Selection, "Selection box: switch to pick select", "⇥ or ⌥ Space again", "Tab or Ctrl+Space again"),
+    (Selection, "Pick select: next or previous layer", "⇥ / ⇧⇥", "Tab / Shift+Tab"),
+    (Selection, "Pick select: into a layer, out to its parent", "↵ / ⇧↵", "Enter / Shift+Enter"),
+    (Selection, "Pick select: select the picked layer", "Space", "Space"),
     (Edit, "Duplicate by dragging", "⌥ drag", "Alt+drag"),
     (Transform, "Nudge (Shift: big nudge)", "← ↑ → ↓", "← ↑ → ↓"),
     (Transform, "Resize by the nudge amount", "⌘ arrows", "Ctrl+arrows"),

crates/engine/src/shortcut_parity_tests.rs

@@ -235,6 +235,8 @@ static ROWS: &[Row] = &[
         "then the arrows move it, Cmd/Ctrl+arrows draw it out (Shift: farther), Enter selects, Escape closes; F8 kept")
         .reserved("Ctrl+Space switches the input method with some Chinese, Japanese and Korean input methods on Windows and Linux"),
     doc(Selection, "Select nested layers", &["Cmd"], &[], Gesture("Deep select"), "held while clicking or dragging"),
+    doc(Selection, "Pick select (while the keyboard box selection shows)", &["Tab"], &[], Gesture("Selection box: switch to pick select"),
+        "or the chord again; then Tab and Shift+Tab move the pick cursor between layers, Enter and Shift+Enter into and out of a layer, Space selects, Escape ends"),
     pin(Selection, "object.rename", &["F2"], &[]),
     pin(Selection, "select.area", &["F8"], &[]),
     // Edit
@@ -413,7 +415,7 @@ fn counts_match_the_docs() {
     let reserved = documented.iter().filter(|r| !r.reserved.is_empty()).count();
     let pinned = ROWS.len() - documented.len();
     // docs/ui-parity.md quotes these.
-    assert_eq!((documented.len(), bound, moved, missing, reserved, pinned), (134, 133, 1, 0, 2, 57));
+    assert_eq!((documented.len(), bound, moved, missing, reserved, pinned), (135, 134, 1, 0, 2, 57));
 }
 
 #[test]

crates/ui-egui/locales/en.toml

@@ -1977,3 +1977,14 @@ name = "English"
 "⌘ click" = "⌘ click"
 "⌘ scroll" = "⌘ scroll"
 "⌥ drag" = "⌥ drag"
+"Selection box: switch to pick select" = "Selection box: switch to pick select"
+"Pick select: next or previous layer" = "Pick select: next or previous layer"
+"Pick select: into a layer, out to its parent" = "Pick select: into a layer, out to its parent"
+"Pick select: select the picked layer" = "Pick select: select the picked layer"
+"⇥ or ⌥ Space again" = "⇥ or ⌥ Space again"
+"Tab or Ctrl+Space again" = "Tab or Ctrl+Space again"
+"↵ / ⇧↵" = "↵ / ⇧↵"
+"Enter / Shift+Enter" = "Enter / Shift+Enter"
+"Space" = "Space"
+"Nothing to pick: the page is empty" = "Nothing to pick: the page is empty"
+"Pick select: Tab and Shift+Tab move between layers, Enter goes into one, Shift+Enter out, Space selects, Escape cancels" = "Pick select: Tab and Shift+Tab move between layers, Enter goes into one, Shift+Enter out, Space selects, Escape cancels"

crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/input.rs

@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ pub(super) fn input(app: &mut FigApp, ui: &mut Ui, resp: &egui::Response) -> boo
         app.ui.layers_focus = false;
         app.ui.pages_focus = None;
         app.ui.key_box = None;
+        app.ui.pick = None;
     }
     // Zoom (pinch, Cmd/Ctrl+scroll; a plain mouse wheel with Scroll wheel zoom) about the pointer;
     // other scrolls pan.

crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/overlays.rs

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ pub(super) fn overlays(app: &FigApp, painter: &egui::Painter, t: &Tokens) -> Vec
     {
         draw_outline(app, painter, &doc, h, stroke(outline_colour(&doc, h, accent(painter)), 1.5));
     }
+    pick_outline(app, painter, &doc);
     // Inside a boolean group (an operand selected or in vector edit mode): every operand's outline,
     // so the shapes making the live result stay visible while one of them changes.
     let editing = ds.vector_edit.as_ref().map(|ve| ve.id);
@@ -759,3 +760,10 @@ fn vector_overlay(
 pub(super) fn accent(p: &egui::Painter) -> Color32 {
     crate::theme::canvas_accent(p.ctx())
 }
+
+/// Pick select: the pink outline on the layer the keys walked to (#1836).
+fn pick_outline(app: &FigApp, painter: &egui::Painter, doc: &Document) {
+    if let Some(p) = app.ui.pick.filter(|p| doc.node(*p).is_some()) {
+        draw_outline(app, painter, doc, p, stroke(crate::handles::PINK, 2.0));
+    }
+}

crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs

@@ -982,6 +982,13 @@ fn ui_key(app: &mut FigApp, ctx: &Context, p: &Value) -> Result<Value, String> {
         figcraft_engine::textedit::key(&mut app.session, key, m.shift, word, line).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
         return Ok(json!({"ok": true}));
     }
+    // The keyboard selection box and pick select take their keys first, as on the keyboard.
+    if let Some(k) = normalize(key).and_then(|(name, _)| egui::Key::from_name(name)) {
+        let mods = egui::Modifiers { alt: m.alt, ctrl: m.ctrl, shift: m.shift, mac_cmd: false, command: m.cmd || m.ctrl };
+        if crate::shortcuts::key_pick(app, k, mods) || crate::shortcuts::key_box(app, k, mods) {
+            return Ok(json!({"ok": true}));
+        }
+    }
     // Vector edit mode and shape builder keys (tools, nudging points, delete, join, Enter).
     if app.session.tool_key(key, m.shift, m.alt, m.cmd).map_err(|e| e.to_string())? {
         return Ok(json!({"ok": true}));

crates/ui-egui/src/layers_keyboard_tests.rs

@@ -222,3 +222,61 @@ impl crate::FigApp {
         self.session.doc().unwrap().node(id).unwrap().transform.translation().x
     }
 }
+
+/// Pick select (#1836): "Press Tab or ⌥Option Space / Control Space again to switch to pick
+/// select." "Once activated, a pink outline is placed on a selected objects on the canvas, or any
+/// node if nothing is selected." "Use Tab to move between parent objects on the canvas,
+/// Return/Enter and ⇧Shift Return / Enter to move between parent and child layers. Press Space to
+/// make you selection. Press Esc or click anywhere on the canvas to exit selection mode."
+/// (Accessibility at Figma).
+#[test]
+fn tab_switches_the_selection_box_to_pick_select() {
+    let (mut u, a, b) = setup();
+    // A frame with a child, on top of A and B in the layers list.
+    let f = NodeId(u.app.run("frame.create", json!({"x": 200, "y": 0, "width": 80, "height": 80})).unwrap()["id"].as_u64().unwrap());
+    let c = NodeId(u.app.run("shape.rectangle", json!({"x": 210, "y": 10, "width": 20, "height": 20, "parent": f})).unwrap()["id"].as_u64().unwrap());
+    u.app.run("select.set", json!({"ids": [a]}));
+    press(&mut u, Key::F8, Modifiers::NONE);
+    press(&mut u, Key::Tab, Modifiers::NONE);
+    assert!(u.app.ui.key_box.is_none(), "the box becomes the pick cursor");
+    assert_eq!(u.app.ui.pick, Some(a), "on the selected layer");
+    assert_eq!(u.app.session.selection(), vec![a], "nothing selected yet");
+    // Tab walks the siblings as the Layers panel lists them (the frame on top, then B, then A),
+    // wrapping; Shift+Tab goes the other way.
+    press(&mut u, Key::Tab, Modifiers::NONE);
+    assert_eq!(u.app.ui.pick, Some(f), "below A comes the top of the list");
+    press(&mut u, Key::Tab, Modifiers::SHIFT);
+    assert_eq!(u.app.ui.pick, Some(a));
+    press(&mut u, Key::Tab, Modifiers::SHIFT);
+    assert_eq!(u.app.ui.pick, Some(b));
+    // Enter goes into a frame's top child, Shift+Enter back out; the page is never picked.
+    press(&mut u, Key::Tab, Modifiers::SHIFT);
+    assert_eq!(u.app.ui.pick, Some(f));
+    press(&mut u, Key::Enter, Modifiers::NONE);
+    assert_eq!(u.app.ui.pick, Some(c));
+    press(&mut u, Key::Enter, Modifiers::SHIFT);
+    press(&mut u, Key::Enter, Modifiers::SHIFT);
+    assert_eq!(u.app.ui.pick, Some(f));
+    assert_eq!(u.app.session.selection(), vec![a], "walking selects nothing");
+    // Space selects the picked layer and ends pick select.
+    press(&mut u, Key::Space, Modifiers::NONE);
+    assert_eq!(u.app.session.selection(), vec![f]);
+    assert!(u.app.ui.pick.is_none());
+    // The chord again while the box shows switches too; Escape ends it, the selection kept.
+    press(&mut u, Key::F8, Modifiers::NONE);
+    press(&mut u, Key::F8, Modifiers::NONE);
+    assert!(u.app.ui.key_box.is_none());
+    assert_eq!(u.app.ui.pick, Some(f));
+    press(&mut u, Key::Escape, Modifiers::NONE);
+    assert!(u.app.ui.pick.is_none());
+    assert_eq!(u.app.session.selection(), vec![f]);
+    // Nothing selected: the pick starts on the page's top layer; a press on the canvas ends it.
+    u.app.run("select.none", json!({}));
+    press(&mut u, Key::F8, Modifiers::NONE);
+    press(&mut u, Key::Tab, Modifiers::NONE);
+    assert_eq!(u.app.ui.pick, Some(f));
+    let p = u.app.canvas.rect.center();
+    u.button(p, true);
+    u.button(p, false);
+    assert!(u.app.ui.pick.is_none());
+}

crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs

@@ -481,6 +481,9 @@ pub struct UiState {
     /// A selection box drawn from the keyboard (`select.area`), page `[x0, y0, x1, y1]` with the
     /// marquee's start at `x0, y0`.
     pub key_box: Option<[f64; 4]>,
+    /// Pick select (#1836): the layer the pink outline is on while the keys walk the layer tree
+    /// (Tab or the selection-box chord again while the box shows; Space selects it).
+    pub pick: Option<NodeId>,
     /// Layers panel search: open, the filter text, the shift-click range anchor and the selection
     /// the tree last revealed (ancestors expand and the row scrolls into view when it changes).
     pub layer_search: bool,
@@ -656,6 +659,7 @@ impl Default for UiState {
             context_menu: None,
             key_menu: false,
             key_box: None,
+            pick: None,
             layer_search: false,
             layer_filter: String::new(),
             layer_anchor: None,

crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs

@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ fn key_event(app: &mut FigApp, key: Key, physical: Option<Key>, m: Modifiers, re
     if key == Key::Escape && !egui::Popup::is_any_open(ctx) && crate::colorpicker::close_if_open(app) {
         return true;
     }
-    if key_box(app, key, m) {
+    if key_pick(app, key, m) || key_box(app, key, m) {
         return true;
     }
     // Enter or Escape finishes crop mode (the crop is already applied).
@@ -517,8 +517,15 @@ fn key_event(app: &mut FigApp, key: Key, physical: Option<Key>, m: Modifiers, re
 /// F8): the arrows move it, Cmd/Ctrl+arrows or Shift+arrows move its far corner, sizing it (Shift
 /// with Cmd/Ctrl: five times as far), by 10 screen pixels; Enter selects what it covers like a
 /// marquee (Shift toggles, Cmd/Ctrl takes nested layers), Escape drops it.
-fn key_box(app: &mut FigApp, key: Key, m: Modifiers) -> bool {
+pub(crate) fn key_box(app: &mut FigApp, key: Key, m: Modifiers) -> bool {
     let Some(mut b) = app.ui.key_box else { return false };
+    // "Press Tab ... to switch to pick select" (Accessibility at Figma): the box becomes the
+    // pick cursor.
+    if key == Key::Tab && m.is_none() {
+        app.ui.key_box = None;
+        app.start_pick_select();
+        return true;
+    }
     let size = m.shift || m.command;
     let step = if m.shift && m.command { 50.0 } else { 10.0 } / app.session.ds().map_or(1.0, |d| d.view.zoom.max(1e-6));
     let (dx, dy) = match key {
@@ -553,9 +560,77 @@ fn key_box(app: &mut FigApp, key: Key, m: Modifiers) -> bool {
     }
 }
 
+/// The sibling `dir` rows away from layer `id` in the Layers panel (down for 1, up for -1,
+/// wrapping), as `select.next` and `select.previous` walk: the list shows the last child on top.
+fn pick_sibling(doc: &figcraft_doc::Document, id: figcraft_doc::NodeId, dir: i64) -> Option<figcraft_doc::NodeId> {
+    let siblings = &doc.node(doc.node(id)?.parent?)?.children;
+    let n = i64::try_from(siblings.len()).ok()?;
+    let idx = i64::try_from(siblings.iter().position(|c| *c == id)?).ok()?;
+    siblings.get(usize::try_from((idx - dir).rem_euclid(n)).ok()?).copied()
+}
+
+/// Keys while the pick cursor shows ([`FigApp::start_pick_select`]): Tab and Shift+Tab move it between
+/// sibling layers in Layers-panel order, Enter into the top child of a frame or group, Shift+Enter
+/// out to the parent (never the page), Space selects the layer under it, Escape drops it ("Use
+/// Tab to move between parent objects on the canvas, Return/Enter and ⇧Shift Return / Enter to
+/// move between parent and child layers. Press Space to make you selection. Press Esc or click
+/// anywhere on the canvas to exit selection mode.", Accessibility at Figma, #1836).
+pub(crate) fn key_pick(app: &mut FigApp, key: Key, m: Modifiers) -> bool {
+    let Some(at) = app.ui.pick else { return false };
+    let Ok(doc) = app.session.doc() else { return false };
+    let Some(node) = doc.node(at) else {
+        app.ui.pick = None;
+        return false;
+    };
+    let plain = !m.command && !m.alt && !m.ctrl;
+    let next = match key {
+        Key::Tab if plain => pick_sibling(doc, at, if m.shift { -1 } else { 1 }),
+        Key::Enter if plain && m.shift => node.parent.filter(|p| doc.node(*p).is_some_and(|n| !n.is_page())),
+        Key::Enter if plain => node.children.last().copied(),
+        Key::Space if m.is_none() => {
+            app.ui.pick = None;
+            app.run("select.set", json!({"ids": [at]}));
+            return true;
+        }
+        Key::Escape => {
+            app.ui.pick = None;
+            return true;
+        }
+        _ => return false,
+    };
+    if let Some(n) = next {
+        app.ui.pick = Some(n);
+    }
+    true
+}
+
 impl FigApp {
+    /// Pick select: the pink outline on the first selected layer, or on the page's top layer when
+    /// nothing is selected ("Once activated, a pink outline is placed on a selected objects on the
+    /// canvas, or any node if nothing is selected", Accessibility at Figma); the keys walk the
+    /// layer tree from there ([`key_pick`]).
+    pub(crate) fn start_pick_select(&mut self) {
+        let Ok(ds) = self.session.ds() else { return };
+        let top = self.session.page().ok().and_then(|p| ds.doc.node(p)).and_then(|n| n.children.last().copied());
+        let Some(at) = ds.selection.first().copied().or(top) else {
+            self.toast(crate::i18n::tr("Nothing to pick: the page is empty"));
+            return;
+        };
+        self.ui.pick = Some(at);
+        self.toast(crate::i18n::tr(
+            "Pick select: Tab and Shift+Tab move between layers, Enter goes into one, Shift+Enter out, Space selects, Escape cancels",
+        ));
+    }
+
     /// Show a selection box for the keyboard: around the selection, else in the middle of the view.
+    /// The chord again while the box shows switches to pick select, and while the pick cursor
+    /// shows brings the box back.
     pub(crate) fn start_key_box(&mut self) {
+        if self.ui.key_box.take().is_some() {
+            self.start_pick_select();
+            return;
+        }
+        self.ui.pick = None;
         let Ok(ds) = self.session.ds() else { return };
         let zoom = ds.view.zoom.max(1e-6);
         let around = ds.selection.iter().filter_map(|i| ds.doc.world_bounds(*i)).reduce(|a, b| a.union(b));

docs/ui-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-02 · **Change:** patch (Backspace or Delete at the start of a list item keeps the item's indentation level, as the lists article says; max lines on auto-width text keep it auto width, hugging that many lines, as the text properties article says; superscript and subscript are synthesised where the font has no glyphs for them, from the standard glyphs shrunk and shifted by the font's OS/2 metrics, and a run mixing available and unavailable glyphs is synthesised whole, as Explore text properties says (#1828); Alt+Enter while editing text opens the link at the caret, as the accessibility page documents; Minimize, by its shortcut or the button by the file name, collapses the navigation bar and both sidebars as the help center says, with the right sidebar back while something is selected (#1835); the interface size keys of the help center's accessibility page: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt with =, - and 0 step the interface through the Preferences sizes and back to the system's size; Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+arrows rotate the selection a degree at a time, 15 with Shift, as the help center's accessibility page says; they resized before; the Layers panel answers Ctrl+1 as well as Alt+1 on Windows and Linux, the two keys the help center gives it; the colour picker's Image tab shows a placeholder and Upload from computer, an asset preview, and a file dropped on it replaces the image, keeping the fill mode, crop and position (#1682); the keyboard's Menu key opens the context menu, as Shift+F10 does; the eyedropper with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift makes a colour style or variable of what it picks; sidebar number and text fields keep their text vertically centered when focused, including typography spacing; with the pen out, Enter or a double-click ends the path and edits the vector with the Move tool instead of drawing on (#1430); the Actions palette offers only commands that run from it, and no second row reading like a menu item: Place image opens the file dialog (#1574); Preferences ▸ Scroll wheel zoom: a mouse wheel zooms the canvas about the pointer and Cmd/Ctrl+wheel scrolls (#1390); boolean operations refuse input past their caps, and a boolean group past them draws without its result (#1104); the selection and hover outlines of rounded rectangles and frames follow their corners (#1506); colour picker review fixes for text undo, fitted sidebars, moving controls and gradient variables; Corner smoothing: an original icon and the shared number-field drag gesture, preserving fractional baselines; guides snap to layers when dragged; Crop image: Object ▸ Crop image, the right-click menu and the image fill row enter crop mode (`image.crop`, #1464); the Design panel's sections on one grid — 16 / 8 margins, 88 + 8 + 88 + 8 + 24 columns, 24 pt rows, 4 pt between a row's buttons (#858); the toolbar on one 32 pt grid, without its Resources button (#1210); colour picker LCH and OKLCH models; an XML (Android Vector Drawable) export format; Context menus: the Menu key reaches egui 0.37 but is unbound (row done → partial); the Text on a path tool; board tool keys pinned; community fixes: the text box by dragging, the font picker keys, the pen path on leaving Design, a still canvas in vector edit mode, a scrolling pages list, colour emoji, readable new text in frames, system theme on first run; the Small caps sample in Type settings drawn from capitals; recent files as cards; vector edit mode: hovering, hatching, selecting and dragging filled regions; home screen: Templates tab, first-run templates and Getting started tips; number fields: scrub rates, arrow steps, arithmetic with brackets, relative edits of mixed values; outline mode's hidden layers and object bounds; Hide when publishing; cursors per tool and modifier; panel widths; dark pages for files made in the dark theme; drag threshold and double-clicks into text in groups; rotation origin on Alt+R and placing with Enter: no documented shortcut missing; keyboard shortcut parity suite and bindings; cursor chat and spotlight in live sessions; layers and assets panels behaviour suite and fixes; vector multi-edit and the vector edit tail; canvas navigation, guides and grids behaviour suite and fixes; shapes and vector behaviour suite and fixes; paint and effects behaviour suite and fixes; frames, groups, sections and masks behaviour suite and fixes; layers panel keyboard: F2 rename, Shift+F10 context menu, F8 box selection; selection and transform behaviour suite and fixes; Display P3: gamut warning and soft-proof (true P3 blocked upstream); several windows; boolean hit testing on the result, group drags, frame outlines and slices; outlines for the selection, mask outlines; arc fields, live boolean editing, shape builder on strokes, one-sided widths; fields select their text on focus; Typography spacing icons support scrubbing (#373); CSS colour names in hex fields; a rename selects the whole name, so typing replaces it; Escape or Enter afteLine truncated
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-02 · **Change:** minor (pick select: Tab while the keyboard selection box shows (or the chord again) puts a pink outline on a layer and the keys walk the layer tree from it, as Accessibility at Figma says (#1836); Backspace or Delete at the start of a list item keeps the item's indentation level, as the lists article says; max lines on auto-width text keep it auto width, hugging that many lines, as the text properties article says; superscript and subscript are synthesised where the font has no glyphs for them, from the standard glyphs shrunk and shifted by the font's OS/2 metrics, and a run mixing available and unavailable glyphs is synthesised whole, as Explore text properties says (#1828); Alt+Enter while editing text opens the link at the caret, as the accessibility page documents; Minimize, by its shortcut or the button by the file name, collapses the navigation bar and both sidebars as the help center says, with the right sidebar back while something is selected (#1835); the interface size keys of the help center's accessibility page: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt with =, - and 0 step the interface through the Preferences sizes and back to the system's size; Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+arrows rotate the selection a degree at a time, 15 with Shift, as the help center's accessibility page says; they resized before; the Layers panel answers Ctrl+1 as well as Alt+1 on Windows and Linux, the two keys the help center gives it; the colour picker's Image tab shows a placeholder and Upload from computer, an asset preview, and a file dropped on it replaces the image, keeping the fill mode, crop and position (#1682); the keyboard's Menu key opens the context menu, as Shift+F10 does; the eyedropper with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift makes a colour style or variable of what it picks; sidebar number and text fields keep their text vertically centered when focused, including typography spacing; with the pen out, Enter or a double-click ends the path and edits the vector with the Move tool instead of drawing on (#1430); the Actions palette offers only commands that run from it, and no second row reading like a menu item: Place image opens the file dialog (#1574); Preferences ▸ Scroll wheel zoom: a mouse wheel zooms the canvas about the pointer and Cmd/Ctrl+wheel scrolls (#1390); boolean operations refuse input past their caps, and a boolean group past them draws without its result (#1104); the selection and hover outlines of rounded rectangles and frames follow their corners (#1506); colour picker review fixes for text undo, fitted sidebars, moving controls and gradient variables; Corner smoothing: an original icon and the shared number-field drag gesture, preserving fractional baselines; guides snap to layers when dragged; Crop image: Object ▸ Crop image, the right-click menu and the image fill row enter crop mode (`image.crop`, #1464); the Design panel's sections on one grid — 16 / 8 margins, 88 + 8 + 88 + 8 + 24 columns, 24 pt rows, 4 pt between a row's buttons (#858); the toolbar on one 32 pt grid, without its Resources button (#1210); colour picker LCH and OKLCH models; an XML (Android Vector Drawable) export format; Context menus: the Menu key reaches egui 0.37 but is unbound (row done → partial); the Text on a path tool; board tool keys pinned; community fixes: the text box by dragging, the font picker keys, the pen path on leaving Design, a still canvas in vector edit mode, a scrolling pages list, colour emoji, readable new text in frames, system theme on first run; the Small caps sample in Type settings drawn from capitals; recent files as cards; vector edit mode: hovering, hatching, selecting and dragging filled regions; home screen: Templates tab, first-run templates and Getting started tips; number fields: scrub rates, arrow steps, arithmetic with brackets, relative edits of mixed values; outline mode's hidden layers and object bounds; Hide when publishing; cursors per tool and modifier; panel widths; dark pages for files made in the dark theme; drag threshold and double-clicks into text in groups; rotation origin on Alt+R and placing with Enter: no documented shortcut missing; keyboard shortcut parity suite and bindings; cursor chat and spotlight in live sessions; layers and assets panels behaviour suite and fixes; vector multi-edit and the vector edit tail; canvas navigation, guides and grids behaviour suite and fixes; shapes and vector behaviour suite and fixes; paint and effects behaviour suite and fixes; frames, groups, sections and masks behaviour suite and fixes; layers panel keyboard: F2 rename, Shift+F10 context menu, F8 box selection; selection and transform behaviour suite and fixes; Display P3: gamut warning and soft-proof (true P3 blocked upstream); several windows; boolean hit testing on the result, group drags, frame outlines and slices; outlines for the selection, mask outlines; arc fields, live boolean editing, shape builder on strokes, one-sided widths; fielLine truncated
 
 Fine canvas control is what Figma users feel first: handles, snapping, nudging, modifier keys,
 drag behaviour, numeric precision. This checklist covers the tools, gestures and panels. Status:
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ interaction feel not yet compared.
 | Locked layers | done | selectable from the layers panel; no handles, not dragged with the rest of a selection |
 | Smart selection spacing | partial | with layers in a row, a column or an aligned grid selected, the Layout section shows horizontal and vertical spacing ("Mixed" until set; typed, scrubbed, fractional and negative) and pink handles in the gaps on the canvas drag them, one undo step, Escape cancels (`arrange.spacing`; sizes, parents and offsets within each track kept; at most 2,000 layers; flow children, locked layers and layers inside instances left out). A ring at each layer's centre drags it to another place in a regular row, column or complete top-left-aligned grid: the others close up and make room around it with the gaps kept, and with Cmd/Ctrl held the two layers swap places instead, previewed live while dragging (`selection_reorder_tests`; no ring on a layer under 16 px on screen). Not covered: reordering irregular grids, and several marked layers moved together. Checked by its author on macOS and in the app on Windows (#402) |
 | Selection colors | partial | for a mixed selection the Design panel lists their solid and gradient paints (children and text ranges included; hidden paints, masks, images, patterns and boolean operands left out; styles and variables listed apart): editing a colour changes every matching fill and stroke in one undo step, a row selects the layers that use it or applies a color style or color variable of the document, and a row linked to a style or variable detaches it, keeping the color (`selection.colors`, `selection.setPaint`, `selection.applyColorStyle`, `selection.bindColorVariable`, `selection.detachColor`, `selection.selectColor`). No library styles or variables from there, and no new style or variable from a row (#403) |
-| Keyboard box selection | done | Alt+Space on macOS, Ctrl+Space on Windows and Linux, or F8 (`select.area`): a box around the selection or in the middle of the view; arrows move it, Cmd/Ctrl+arrows or Shift+arrows size it (Shift with Cmd/Ctrl: farther), Enter selects like a marquee (Shift+Enter toggles, Cmd/Ctrl+Enter nested), Escape closes |
+| Keyboard box selection | done | Alt+Space on macOS, Ctrl+Space on Windows and Linux, or F8 (`select.area`): a box around the selection or in the middle of the view; arrows move it, Cmd/Ctrl+arrows or Shift+arrows size it (Shift with Cmd/Ctrl: farther), Enter selects like a marquee (Shift+Enter toggles, Cmd/Ctrl+Enter nested), Escape closes; Tab while the box shows, or the chord again, switches to pick select: a pink outline on the first selected layer (the page's top layer with nothing selected), Tab and Shift+Tab move it between sibling layers in Layers order, Enter into a frame's top child, Shift+Enter out to the parent, Space selects it, Escape or a press on the canvas ends it; `ui.key` takes the same keys (#1836) |
 
 ## Tools
 
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ in the table. `crates/ui-egui/src/shortcut_keys_tests.rs` drives the keys a look
 
 | | Count | Notes |
 |---|---|---|
-| Documented shortcuts (rows) | 134 | each with macOS and Windows/Linux keys |
-| Bound as documented | 133 (110 before this suite) | 112 keymap bindings, 15 held keys, gestures and presentation keys, 6 vector edit tool keys |
+| Documented shortcuts (rows) | 135 | each with macOS and Windows/Linux keys |
+| Bound as documented | 134 (110 before this suite) | 112 keymap bindings, 15 held keys, gestures and presentation keys, 6 vector edit tool keys |
 | Bound on other keys (documented conflict) | 1 | Run last plugin: the documentation also gives Ctrl+Alt+P to pixel preview on Windows; the plugin takes Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P there |
 | Missing | 0 | moving the rotation origin (Alt+R, `transform.rotationOrigin`) and placing an object with Enter after choosing its tool (`tool.place`) were the last two |
 | Documented keys a platform keeps | 2 | Ctrl+Space (Windows/Linux keyboard box selection) switches some CJK input methods; F6 goes to a browser's address bar in the web build |
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ in the table. `crates/ui-egui/src/shortcut_keys_tests.rs` drives the keys a look
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-02 | minor | M1, #1836: pick select. Tab while the keyboard selection box shows, or Alt/Ctrl+Space again, puts a pink outline on the first selected layer (the page's top layer with nothing selected); Tab and Shift+Tab move it between sibling layers as the Layers panel lists them, Enter into a frame's top child, Shift+Enter out to the parent (never the page), Space selects the layer under it, Escape or a press on the canvas ends it; the chord again while the pick cursor shows brings the box back ("Press Tab or ⌥Option Space / Control Space again to switch to pick select", "a pink outline is placed on a selected objects on the canvas, or any node if nothing is selected", "Use Tab to move between parent objects on the canvas, Return/Enter and ⇧Shift Return / Enter to move between parent and child layers. Press Space to make you selection", Accessibility at Figma). The control channel's `ui.key` sends the box's and the pick cursor's keys to them too. One documented row more (135, 134 bound); four gesture rows. Tests: `layers_keyboard_tests::tab_switches_the_selection_box_to_pick_select`. |
 | 2026-11-02 | patch | M4: Backspace or Delete at the start of a list item takes its marker and keeps its level ("Use Backspace or Delete at the beginning of a list item to delete the counter, but keep the same level of indentation", Create bulleted and numbered lists): a plain paragraph may now carry a list level, and the text layout starts it where that level's item text starts (the gutters stay even when no list is left). Backspace used to drop the level too, and Delete at an item's start deleted the next character. Tab on such a paragraph types a tab, as outside a list. Tests: `text_tail_tests::list_keys_at_list_items`, text crate `behaviour_tests::a_plain_paragraph_at_a_list_level_starts_where_the_items_text_does` |
 | 2026-11-02 | patch | M4: max lines on an auto-width text keep it auto width: the box hugs up to that many lines and still grows with its longest line ("Max lines is available only if truncate text is enabled, and: Text resizing is set to auto height or auto width", Explore text properties). `text.maxLines` turned such a text into a fixed truncating box with a stale height, so later typing no longer widened it; fixed-size text still becomes a truncating box, auto-height text hugs as before. Test: `text_behaviour_tests::max_lines_on_auto_width_text_keeps_auto_width_and_hugs_that_many_lines` |
 | 2026-11-02 | patch | M4, #1828: superscript and subscript synthesised where the font has no `sups` / `subs` glyphs (the standard glyph shrunk and shifted by the OS/2 metrics, the usual 0.65 em and 0.35 / 0.14 em offsets without them), and a run mixing available and unavailable glyphs synthesised whole, as Explore text properties says. Tests: `text::tests::superscript_native_or_synthesised_and_never_mixed`, `text_behaviour_tests::superscript_and_subscript_are_synthesised_without_glyphs_for_them`. |