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Should you be able to select object in Edit mode?
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System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.22000-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 511.79

Blender Version
Broken: version: 3.1.2, branch: master, commit date: 2022-03-31 17:40, hash: rBcc66d1020c3b
Worked: Not sure

Short description of error
When in Edit mode for Object A I can select Object B.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
In the attached blend the cube is in Edit mode.
Hold down the Control key and you should be able to select the sphere. It will highlight orange.
Should this be possible?

Edit_Mode_Select_Another_Obj.blend771 KBDownload

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Event Timeline

Ken Heslip (kenhes) created this task.Apr 12 2022, 7:03 PM
Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123) added a subscriber: Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123).Apr 13 2022, 6:48 AM

Thanks for the report.

This is not a bug . Selection of objects with ctrl-LMB is possible for objects that are not in edit mode.

Ken Heslip (kenhes) added a comment.Apr 13 2022, 3:46 PM

Oh...thanks for letting me know. This can be closed then.

Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123) added a subscriber: Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii).Apr 13 2022, 5:44 PM

I'm not sure about the reason to allow this selection.
I know some use cases (eg, In knife project to select projecting mesh) but that's not enough to consider this report as invalid
@Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii) , any idea?

Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii) closed this task as Archived.Apr 13 2022, 8:41 PM

Objects selected outside of edit mode is nothing new.
It was a more common situation when Blender didn't support multiple objects in edit mode.
Other operator that benefit from it as far as I can remember is the Hook to Selected Object

I've seen suggestions on how these operators could behave replacing this little-known selection. Perhaps the design can change.
Documentation could be improved as well.

But I'm closing the report as neither the documentation nor the design are considered bugs or errors.

Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123) mentioned this in T99865: Holding Ctrl disables Object Lock Modes.Jul 27 2022, 11:10 AM