diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
index 140c38b53e..f66a0eef0e 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
@@ -878,18 +878,13 @@ impl DocView {
         if let Some(q) = &mut self.camera {
             q.grab = None;
         }
-        self.block_drag = None;
         self.org_drag = None;
         self.panel_drag = None;
         self.selection_drag = false;
         self.router.cancel();
         self.auto_scroll.cancel();
         self.prepare.cancel_pointer_gesture();
-        self.content.cancel_pointer_gesture();
-        self.objects.cancel_pointer_gesture();
-        if let Some(image) = &mut self.image_selection {
-            image.cancel_pointer_gesture();
-        }
+        self.cancel_edit_text_gestures();
     }
 
     /// Abandon Edit text's pointer gestures (a paragraph moved or rewrapped, a picture moved,
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_input.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_input.rs
index 958c26eca0..cffb7ffc9b 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_input.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_input.rs
@@ -104,8 +104,7 @@ pub(super) fn page_tool_input(ui: &mut egui::Ui, view: &mut DocView, frame: &mut
             && can_modify
             && xf.rect.contains(o)
             && crate::object_ui::adds(ptr.modifiers)
-            && !resp.context_menu_opened()
-            && !egui::Popup::is_any_open(ui.ctx());
+            && !crate::object_ui::menu_open(ui, resp);
         let objects = adds.then(|| view.objects.inventory(doc, i));
         let at = hits.at(view, o, objects.as_ref());
         // A press is the page's it lies on, or past its edge the one whose selected picture has its
@@ -549,9 +548,9 @@ impl PageHits<'_> {
                 .filter(|e| !e.has_changes())
                 .and_then(|e| lines.get(e.block))
                 .map(|l| xf.user_rect(info, page, l.rect.map(|v| v as f32)).expand(2.0));
-            // Add text acts on the page's paragraphs only in their boxes, edges included (it
-            // finishes the box being typed there, `over_source`): not on pictures, nor beside a
-            // paragraph, where a click starts a new box.
+            // Add text acts on the page's paragraphs only in their boxes, edges included (its click
+            // there finishes the box being typed and opens the paragraph, `ParagraphCx::adding`):
+            // not on pictures, nor beside a paragraph, where a click starts a new box.
             let edit_text = tool == QuickTool::EditText;
             let on_paragraphs = edit_text || crate::edit_text_ui::over_paragraph(xf, info, page, lines, p);
             (
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_pointer/tests.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_pointer/tests.rs
index 06e6a720e2..f0392b4d7a 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_pointer/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_pointer/tests.rs
@@ -260,7 +260,11 @@ fn declares(line: &str) -> Option<&str> {
     let mut rest = line;
     loop {
         let before = rest;
-        for prefix in ["pub(crate) ", "pub(super) ", "pub ", "const ", "async ", "unsafe "] {
+        // `pub(crate)`, `pub(super)`, `pub(in crate::canvas)` and the like.
+        if let Some(scoped) = rest.strip_prefix("pub(") {
+            rest = scoped.split_once(") ").map_or(rest, |(_, after)| after);
+        }
+        for prefix in ["pub ", "const ", "async ", "unsafe "] {
             rest = rest.strip_prefix(prefix).unwrap_or(rest);
         }
         if rest == before {
@@ -605,9 +609,21 @@ const ROUTER_READERS: [(&str, &str, &str); 1] = [(
 /// for itself whether the press is its own, which the page view tells it (`PagePress`).
 const PRESS_CLAIMING_WORDS: [&str; 2] = ["grabs", "owns"];
 
-/// The function `line` declares, when its name has one of [`PRESS_CLAIMING_WORDS`] in it.
+/// The function `line` declares, when one of the words of its name is one of
+/// [`PRESS_CLAIMING_WORDS`].
 fn press_claiming_fn(line: &str) -> Vec<String> {
-    declares(line.trim_start()).filter(|name| PRESS_CLAIMING_WORDS.iter().any(|w| name.contains(w))).map(str::to_owned).into_iter().collect()
+    declares(line.trim_start())
+        .filter(|name| name.split('_').any(|word| PRESS_CLAIMING_WORDS.contains(&word)))
+        .map(str::to_owned)
+        .into_iter()
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// Whether `line` takes the router whole (`let r = &view.router;`), which the checks by method
+/// name would not see through: anything but a method call on it.
+fn takes_the_router(line: &str) -> bool {
+    line.match_indices(".router")
+        .any(|(at, name)| line[at + name.len()..].chars().next().is_none_or(|c| c != '.' && !(c.is_alphanumeric() || c == '_')))
 }
 
 /// What ignores the press the pages hold until the button is up.
@@ -665,7 +681,7 @@ fn page_modules_act_on_a_press_only_through_the_router() {
     // functions use it.
     let known: Vec<&str> = ROUTER_WRITES.iter().chain(ROUTER_READS.iter()).copied().collect();
     let unlisted = page_module_matches(|line| {
-        let router = uses(line, ".router.") || uses(line, "PageRouter::");
+        let router = uses(line, ".router.") || uses(line, "PageRouter::") || takes_the_router(line);
         if router && !known.iter().any(|name| uses(line, name)) { vec!["router".to_owned()] } else { Vec::new() }
     });
     problems.extend(
@@ -766,6 +782,11 @@ fn the_page_guards_read_hit_tests_split_calls_and_aliases() {
     assert_eq!(declares("let hit = 1;"), None);
     assert_eq!(press_claiming_fn("    pub(crate) fn fill_grabs(view: &DocView) -> bool {"), ["fill_grabs"]);
     assert_eq!(press_claiming_fn("fn owns_press() {"), ["owns_press"]);
+    assert_eq!(press_claiming_fn("    pub(in crate::canvas) fn link_grabs(view: &DocView) {"), ["link_grabs"]);
+    assert!(press_claiming_fn("fn dropdowns() {").is_empty(), "a word that ends in one");
+    assert_eq!(declares("pub(in crate::canvas) fn drag_began(&mut self) {"), Some("drag_began"));
+    assert!(takes_the_router("let r = &view.router;") && takes_the_router("keep(view.router, 1)"));
+    assert!(!takes_the_router("view.router.press_for(i)") && !takes_the_router("view.routers.len()"));
     assert!(press_claiming_fn("fn holds(&self, page: usize) -> bool {").is_empty());
     assert!(press_claiming_fn("let grabs = 1;").is_empty());
     let source = "impl PageHits<'_> {\n    fn at(&self) {\n        self\n            .hits(view, p, false)\n    }\n}\nfn after() {\n    // view.router.owner(0)\n    let _ = view\n        .router\n        .owner(0);\n}\n";
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_router.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_router.rs
index 1f5a2e5d24..2479e9860b 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_router.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_router.rs
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@
 //! press point decide who captures it ([`PageRouter::press`]), by the same table: the highest layer
 //! the active tool reaches. Until the button is up only the owner acts on the press, its drag and
 //! its release, so what the cursor promised is what the press does, and nothing takes a gesture
-//! back halfway. Each page is told what it has to do with the press ([`PagePress`]): its owner's,
-//! the active tool's, or none of its business.
+//! back halfway; an owner that declines the drag (text markup, a link with the Link tool) lets it
+//! go as it starts, and the drag is nobody's. Each page is told what it has to do with the press
+//! ([`PagePress`]): its owner's, the active tool's, or none of its business. Only the page view
+//! reads the router: its methods are `canvas`'s alone.
 
 use egui::CursorIcon;
 use pdfcraft_engine::ObjectTarget;
@@ -143,8 +145,9 @@ pub(crate) enum PagePress {
     /// The press began on this page, and the owner's hit won it: its module acts on it. Others
     /// only let go of their own state (a click on anything but the selected comment unselects it).
     Mine(Owner),
-    /// No button is down, or the press began on this page and nobody's hit won it: the active
-    /// tool's. Also every page's while a press the page view does not hold is down (one that began
+    /// No button is down, or the press began on this page and nobody's hit won it, or its owner let
+    /// its drag go ([`PageRouter::drag_began`]): the active tool's. Also every page's while a
+    /// press the page view does not hold is down (one that began
     /// over a panel), and after the press was dropped ([`PageRouter::cancel`]) until the button is
     /// up (`Elsewhere` instead when Escape came in the press's own frame; page input skips a
     /// cancelled press either way).
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/object_ui.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/object_ui.rs
index 2ae03c4083..b7551ab94a 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/object_ui.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/object_ui.rs
@@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ fn screen(xf: &PageXform, info: &DocInfo, page: usize, object: &EditableObject)
     xf.user_rect(info, page, object.rect.map(|v| v as f32))
 }
 
+/// A menu is open (the page's, or another popup): the objects selected together leave the pointer
+/// alone, and a press with Shift or ⌘ is not theirs.
+pub(crate) fn menu_open(ui: &egui::Ui, resp: &egui::Response) -> bool {
+    resp.context_menu_opened() || egui::Popup::is_any_open(ui.ctx())
+}
+
 /// Whether `modifiers` make a press add to the objects selected together, or take from them.
 pub(crate) fn adds(modifiers: egui::Modifiers) -> bool {
     modifiers.shift || modifiers.ctrl || modifiers.command
@@ -247,7 +253,7 @@ pub(crate) fn page_input(cx: PageToolContext<'_>, press: PagePress, view: &mut D
     if view.objects.input_blocked {
         return true;
     }
-    if resp.context_menu_opened() || egui::Popup::is_any_open(ui.ctx()) {
+    if menu_open(ui, resp) {
         return false;
     }
     match press {
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/prepare.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/prepare.rs
index e169bfea53..405ce5ac84 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/prepare.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/prepare.rs
@@ -380,7 +380,8 @@ pub(crate) fn page_input(
 
     // The Select tool: what the press is on ([`hit`]), a corner handle or a field; a press nobody
     // holds draws a selection rectangle, or a field with a field tool. A press held by something
-    // drawn over the fields (a comment) is not Prepare's.
+    // drawn over the fields (a comment) is not Prepare's, though its drag is once that something
+    // lets it go (a highlight's, `PageRouter::drag_began`).
     let free = press == PagePress::Free;
     let held = matches!(press, PagePress::Mine(Owner::PrepareField { .. } | Owner::PrepareCorner { .. }));
     let hit = match press {
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs
index d505ca2873..2d231ab359 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs
@@ -7503,8 +7503,7 @@ fn delete_on_a_selected_added_picture_deletes_it_alone() {
     assert_eq!(texts, ["Caption"], "and the text placed after it stays");
 }
 
-/// With a dialog open, Delete is the dialog's: the selected picture stays, and so does crop mode
-/// under Escape and Enter.
+/// With a dialog open, Delete and Backspace are the dialog's: the selected picture stays.
 #[test]
 fn a_dialog_keeps_its_delete_while_a_picture_is_selected() {
     let mut h = picture_pages(false);
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/pointer.rs b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/pointer.rs
index 3230ceb83f..3bb43e56d6 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/pointer.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/pointer.rs
@@ -1856,7 +1856,7 @@ fn with_prepare_a_right_click_beside_the_selected_field_opens_the_pages_menu() {
     let blank = at(&h, 60.0, 300.0);
     right_click(&mut h, blank);
     assert!(h.query_by_label("Duplicate…").is_none(), "no field menu on the empty page");
-    assert!(h.query_all_by_label_contains("Copy").next().is_some(), "the page's menu");
+    assert!(h.query_by_label("Marquee Zoom").is_some(), "the page's menu");
     h.key_press(egui::Key::Escape);
     h.run_steps(3);
     right_click(&mut h, on_box);