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      If I can marquee select with the lasso, why shouldn't I be able to marquee
      select with the direct selection tool?




So you don't accidentally select it when you are trying to select and object or path or text object that is behind the mask but not a part of it.

What Damo33 suggest is fine if the mask is your art and is the only art in your file or document or artboard.

Just think about it you have a mask of a shape and an image then you have a logo partially exposed behind the mask of many paths closed and opened know you decide to marquis select just some point of the object in the masks that lies on top of the Logo art but is outside of the mask. You draw you marquis selection and what do you have everything selected. Yes in a situation like that you should select the anchors one at a time in order to save time by not having to deselect a lot of unwontedly selected paths.

But using the lasso tool you have a fighting chance or using isolation mode to get down to a point where everything except the target object is protected and only that object is selectable.

Now say you want to select just the logo or part of the logo you drag a marquis selection with the direct select tool and now you have all the objects outside and inside the mask selected even though you did not select the objects that are masked an you do not want
selected.

So now on the reverse side of this you defeat the very purpose for which you wanted this feature. Now you have no progress and you are causing yourself a great deal of work just so that in the rare occasion that you use this frequently for you can be a few clicks but make many more clicks in the vast majority of the time.

It seems to me to be a complaint about absolutely nothing and though under certain circumstances it might be good to have there is a limit to how much makes sense.

I found the best way to do what you want is to isolate it completely in isolation mode which actually gives you total freedom to work on the object without concern about accidentally deselecting any anchor points or activating any anchor points on any of the art.

What Think would be better is a triple click on an object to bring it into isolation mode grouped or otherwise using the direct select tool.

That is what I think. But only be able to do this when selecting with in the part of an object that in visible in the mask so not to lose the ability to do the same to objects outside the mask.

I do not think you have this thought out properly.

However I think you are a great contributor for starting this thread.