Maintain highlighting when selecting text in the script editor

As a Roblox developer, it is currently annoying that when I select text in the script editor, the syntax highlighting goes away. This is different from the behavior in other editors such as Visual Studio Code and Notepad++, where the highlighting is preserved.

This is a UX request and as a result doesn’t have much to support it; I would just prefer it to be this way. It seems that the industry as a whole does this, though, so I don’t see why Roblox shouldn’t.

This is how it currently looks when I select text:

This is (basically) how I desire it to look (I took this in Visual Studio Code):

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