Single Edit Tab "four choices" dialog doesn't go away when you exit the visual editor
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	• Whatamidoing-WMF
	Mar 21 2016, 6:21 PM

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0) (Reset your preferences at test2.wikipedia.org if necessary.)

This is IMO unexpected behavior, but I'm not sure that it's actually unwanted behavior.

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Don't change focus to VE surface if we're opening the SET dialog	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+12 -8

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Escape key should close the dialog instead.

VE captures the escape key press when you have the document focused, the SET dialog captures it if you have the dialog focused.

We should probably ensure initial focus upon opening the dialog is the dialog

(It seems that we try, it's just that the edit surface finishes loading *afterwards*, stealing focus again)

Change 279081 had a related patch set uploaded (by Alex Monk):
Don't change focus to VE surface if we're opening the SET dialog

Change 279081 merged by jenkins-bot:
Don't change focus to VE surface if we're opening the SET dialog

Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.

Jdforrester-WMF set the point value for this task to 1.