Thank you for your response.

Is there any ticket in your tracking system for the "custom layer" you mentioned that I could/should be watching? I tried searching your ticket system, but was not able to find anything (I realize you said you are just thinking about it, so perhaps it's not even a ticket yet).

We have an application in which we are using CKEditor to allow a user to specify some custom styling within text they are editing. We wrote a plugin which defines our own command that works much like things like bold and italic do, except that if they select the button for that command without any text selected, we insert and preselect some prompt text that has our custom style applied to it. Once they start typing, the desire is that our custom style continues to be applied to the text they start typing. At first I thought this problem was a bug in our code, until I realized that i could reproduce the same behavior with things like bold and italic.

We are dependent on this behavior being consistent, which is why I'm so interested in seeing this work.