TextEdit focused from code behaves differently to when it is clicked by mouse.

Minimal example:

import QtQuick.Window
Window {
    visible: true
    TextEdit {
        focus: true
        anchors.fill: parent
        text: "Some Content"
        persistentSelection: true
    }
}

Running with qml, selecting text with keyboard (Shift+Right) and switching to another app (Alt+Tab) will reset selection, meaning persistentSelection plain out doesn't work.

Click on TextEdit with mouse, then select with keyboard and switch to another app - selection stays.

(Same behaviour can be observed with standard text editor example)

I've tracked it down to QQuickTextControlPrivate::cursorIsFocusIndicator (set by mouse click and checked on focus loss), but with all the interconnected logic required fix isn't obvious.

And affected behavior isn't limited to persistentSelection as I initially stumbled on problem when trying to focus Popup from TextArea, only for it to close immediately (my guess is that selection reset steals focus back to TextArea)