Visual distinction of selection in active/inactive cells?

[gordonwoodhull]

If you make a selection in an inactive cell and start typing, nothing happens. But if the cell is active, the text is replaced.

One suggested solution is to change the color of selection so it’s more clear what’s going on.

(I suppose another solution might be to activate the cell if text is selected and the user starts typing. Sounds somewhat dangerous and would require figuring out the range of an inactive selection, which we currently don’t know.)

[gordonwoodhull]

Closing this in favor of keeping the cells active when in view #2691