diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
index b96364cb56..f843a2ca6c 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs
@@ -1444,7 +1444,8 @@ impl PageHits<'_> {
         };
         // Added text and pictures, over the page's own paragraphs and under the objects selected
         // together.
-        let added = (editing_content && can_modify).then(|| crate::content_ui::hit(xf, info, page, added, view, p)).flatten();
+        let picks_up = matches!(tool, QuickTool::Select | QuickTool::AddText | QuickTool::EditText);
+        let added = (editing_content && can_modify && picks_up).then(|| crate::content_ui::hit(xf, info, page, added, view, p)).flatten();
         [link_hit(info, xf, page, p), comments::hit(pcx, view, p), pictures, paragraphs, added, objects, grips, fields]
             .into_iter()
             .flatten()
@@ -1688,9 +1689,12 @@ fn page_overlays(ui: &mut egui::Ui, view: &mut DocView, frame: &mut PageFrame<'_
     }
     crate::image_pick::drop_stale(doc, view);
     crate::image_pick::paint(painter, &xf, i, info, view);
-    comments::page_after_text(resp, &pcx, view);
-    if tool == QuickTool::Redact && can_modify {
-        crate::redact_ui::after_text(resp, i, info, view);
+    // A cancelled press ends no selection: no markup or redaction is made from it.
+    if !view.press_cancelled {
+        comments::page_after_text(resp, &pcx, view);
+        if tool == QuickTool::Redact && can_modify {
+            crate::redact_ui::after_text(resp, i, info, view);
+        }
     }
     if input.area_tool {
         crate::redact_ui::paint(painter, i, view, pointer);
@@ -1892,11 +1896,19 @@ fn link_hit(info: &DocInfo, xf: &PageXform, page: usize, p: Pos2) -> Option<crat
 /// placed, drawn, moved, resized or opened, and the press is ignored until the button is up. The
 /// frame of the release still belongs to the cancelled press.
 fn cancel_on_escape(ctx: &egui::Context, view: &mut DocView, ptr: &PagePointer) {
-    if view.press_cancelled && !ptr.any_down && ptr.edges.is_empty() {
+    // Over once the button is up and its release seen, or when a new press comes (its release and
+    // the next press can share a frame).
+    let new_press = matches!(ptr.edges.last(), Some(crate::page_pointer::Edge::Press(_)));
+    if view.press_cancelled && (new_press || !ptr.any_down && ptr.edges.is_empty()) {
         view.press_cancelled = false;
     }
     if !view.press_cancelled && ptr.origin.is_some() && ptr.primary_down && ctx.input_mut(|i| i.consume_key(egui::Modifiers::NONE, egui::Key::Escape))
     {
+        // A text selection being dragged goes with its drag: the markup, redaction or Replace
+        // Text that its end would make is not made.
+        if view.selection_drag {
+            view.clear_selection();
+        }
         view.cancel_pointer_gestures();
         view.press_cancelled = true;
     }
@@ -1983,6 +1995,11 @@ fn draw_pages(
     let ptr = PagePointer::read(ui, &resp, modal);
     cancel_on_escape(ui.ctx(), view, &ptr);
     view.router.settle(ptr.any_down, !ptr.edges.is_empty());
+    // A new press is no longer the last one's, wherever it lands (the page it is on gives it
+    // its owner; in the gap between pages it has none).
+    if ptr.pressed().is_some() {
+        view.router.cancel();
+    }
     let pointer = ptr.pos;
     // A press on a page makes it the current one (as in Acrobat), so a page command with
     // no selection (Rotate, Delete) acts on the page the reader pointed at, not on a page
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_cursor.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_cursor.rs
index 382f5efb63..e40dc1c4f3 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_cursor.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/page_cursor.rs
@@ -20,18 +20,19 @@ use crate::QuickTool;
 pub(crate) enum Layer {
     /// The page under the active tool: the crosshair it places or draws with, its I-beam or hand.
     ToolArea,
-    /// The page's text, to select, and Edit text's paragraphs.
+    /// The page's text, to select; Edit text's paragraphs, and its pictures beneath them.
     Text,
     /// Links.
     Link,
-    /// Comments: notes, shapes and markup.
+    /// Text markup (highlights, underlines…), which lies on the text: under a form field.
     Comment,
     /// Form fields.
     Field,
-    /// What a drag moves whole: signatures and Fill & Sign's marks, added text and images,
-    /// selected objects, pictures in Edit text.
+    /// What a drag moves whole: notes, shapes, signatures and Fill & Sign's marks, added text and
+    /// pictures, the objects selected together, Prepare's fields.
     Placed,
-    /// The grips of the selected item: resize, rewrap and crop handles, paragraph edges.
+    /// The grips of the selected item: resize, rewrap, rotate and crop handles, paragraph edges,
+    /// the frame of the paragraph open for typing.
     Handle,
     /// An open editor: a paragraph being typed in, a picture being cropped.
     Editor,
@@ -45,9 +46,10 @@ const LAYERS: [Layer; 9] =
 
 impl Layer {
     /// Whether a press with `tool` acts on what lies on this layer, so that the layer's claims
-    /// count. Only the Select tool follows links (the Link tool edits them) and picks up
-    /// comments: every other tool draws, places or selects text over them. The other layers are
-    /// claimed only by the modules of the tools that act on them, so they count for every tool.
+    /// count. Only the Select tool follows links (the Link tool edits them) and selects text
+    /// markup: every other tool draws, places or selects text over them. The other layers are
+    /// claimed only by the modules of the tools that act on them (each module's hit test filters
+    /// by tool), so they count for every tool.
     pub(crate) fn reached_by(self, tool: QuickTool) -> bool {
         match self {
             Layer::Link => matches!(tool, QuickTool::Select | QuickTool::Link),
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/edit_text_ui.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/edit_text_ui.rs
index 4ea80b1d6b..6ec31b0015 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/edit_text_ui.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/tools/edit_text_ui.rs
@@ -289,7 +289,8 @@ pub(crate) fn hit(xf: &PageXform, info: &DocInfo, page: usize, lines: &[pdfcraft
         return None;
     }
     let boxes: Vec<Rect> = lines.iter().map(|l| paragraph_box(xf, info, page, l.rect)).collect();
-    let (block, grip) = grab_at(&boxes, p, has_edges(info, page))?;
+    // Edges rewrap closed paragraphs only: around the open one lies its frame (`object_ui`).
+    let (block, grip) = grab_at(&boxes, p, has_edges(info, page) && active.is_none())?;
     let paragraph = |part| Owner::Paragraph { block, part };
     Some(match (active, grip) {
         (None, Grip::Left) => Hit::new(paragraph(ParagraphPart::Left), Layer::Handle, egui::CursorIcon::ResizeHorizontal),
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs
index f247eb59b0..be5413b49c 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/editing.rs
@@ -4357,6 +4357,30 @@ fn an_open_paragraphs_frame_shows_move_wherever_a_press_takes_the_box() {
     assert!(h.state().views[0].line_editor.is_none(), "and a click there selects the box");
 }
 
+/// The open paragraph's frame takes hold of the box on its sides too: there the edges of a closed
+/// paragraph would rewrap it, but around the open one lies its frame.
+#[test]
+fn an_open_paragraphs_frame_takes_the_box_beside_its_text() {
+    let mut h = harness(2, |_| {});
+    assert!(h.state_mut().execute("edit.edit_text"));
+    h.run_steps(2);
+    let id = h.state().views[0].id;
+    let before = h.state().session.get(id).unwrap().text_blocks(0)[0].clone();
+    let r = h.state().views[0].page_screen_rect(0).expect("on screen");
+    let k = r.width() / 200.0;
+    let screen = |x: f64, y: f64| egui::pos2(r.left() + x as f32 * k, r.top() + (300.0 - y as f32) * k);
+    let middle = (before.rect[1] + before.rect[3]) / 2.0;
+    click_at(&mut h, screen((before.rect[0] + before.rect[2]) / 2.0, middle));
+    assert!(h.state().views[0].line_editor.is_some(), "a click on the text opens it for typing");
+    // 6 px left of the text: 4 px past the frame drawn 2 px out.
+    let beside = screen(before.rect[0], middle) - egui::vec2(6.0, 0.0);
+    h.hover_at(beside);
+    h.run_steps(3);
+    assert_eq!(h.output().platform_output.cursor_icon, egui::CursorIcon::Move, "the frame offers to move the box there");
+    click_at(&mut h, beside);
+    assert!(h.state().views[0].line_editor.is_none(), "and a click there selects the box");
+}
+
 /// Contributor-original text, with an off-origin CropBox. Keep the moving paragraph last in
 /// source order so an ordinary hit picks it again when two independent boxes fully overlap.
 fn paragraph_drag_fixture(content: &str, rotation: i64, unit: i64) -> Vec<u8> {
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/pointer.rs b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/pointer.rs
index 397d6316f8..0d058cb458 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/pointer.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/tests/it/pointer.rs
@@ -802,6 +802,57 @@ fn escape_cancels_a_signature_rectangle() {
     assert!(s.dialog.is_none(), "and no signing dialog opens: {:?}", s.dialog);
 }
 
+/// A highlight dragged over the line of [`text_pdf`] at 150 %, from x 45 to x 150, with Escape
+/// before the release when `escape`; the comments then on the page.
+fn drag_a_highlight(escape: bool) -> usize {
+    let mut h = open(text_pdf(), "150", false);
+    h.state_mut().quick_tool = QuickTool::Comment(CommentTool::Highlight);
+    h.run_steps(4);
+    let (a, b) = (at(&h, 45.0, 303.0), at(&h, 150.0, 303.0));
+    assert_eq!(wait_for_cursor(&mut h, a, |c| c == egui::CursorIcon::Text), egui::CursorIcon::Text, "the page's text has arrived");
+    h.drag_at(a);
+    h.run_steps(1);
+    h.hover_at(b);
+    h.run_steps(2);
+    if escape {
+        h.key_press(egui::Key::Escape);
+        h.run_steps(1);
+    }
+    h.drop_at(b);
+    h.run_steps(4);
+    let s = h.state();
+    s.session.get(s.views[0].id).unwrap().info.annotations.len()
+}
+
+/// Escape mid-drag abandons a highlight being drawn over text: the release makes no highlight.
+#[test]
+fn escape_cancels_a_highlight_being_dragged_over_text() {
+    assert_eq!(drag_a_highlight(false), 1, "control: the drag highlights the text");
+    assert_eq!(drag_a_highlight(true), 0, "with Escape before the release, no highlight is made");
+}
+
+/// A click on a comment, and in the frame of its release a press beside the page, then a drag
+/// from there: the drag is not the comment's, so it does not move it.
+#[test]
+fn a_drag_from_beside_the_page_right_after_a_click_leaves_the_comment_alone() {
+    let mut h = open(comment_on_text_pdf(), "150", false);
+    let on_comment = at(&h, 120.0, 315.0);
+    let beside = page(&h).left_center() - egui::vec2(20.0, 0.0);
+    let before = square(&h).expect("the rectangle");
+    h.hover_at(on_comment);
+    h.run_steps(1);
+    h.drag_at(on_comment);
+    h.run_steps(1);
+    let button = |pos, pressed| egui::Event::PointerButton { pos, button: egui::PointerButton::Primary, pressed, modifiers: egui::Modifiers::NONE };
+    one_frame(&mut h, [button(on_comment, false), egui::Event::PointerMoved(beside), button(beside, true)]);
+    h.run_steps(1);
+    h.hover_at(beside + egui::vec2(0.0, 60.0));
+    h.run_steps(2);
+    h.drop_at(beside + egui::vec2(0.0, 60.0));
+    h.run_steps(4);
+    assert_eq!(square(&h), Some(before), "the comment stays where it was");
+}
+
 /// Only the primary button draws a signature rectangle: a right-drag opens no signing dialog.
 #[test]
 fn a_right_drag_draws_no_signature_rectangle() {