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Excited to share that the requested functionality is now available in the public builds starting from V 28.3.0.
WIth the new Enclosed Mode, you can now select ONLY those objects which are completely INSIDE the marquee.
To activate the Enclosed Mode, just press 'E' ONCE after you start doing the marquee with the Normal Selection Tool or Group Selection tool.
Please note that,
1. The button E acts as a toggle, which means you just have to press E once, to get into or out of the enclosed mode.
2. You have to press E only after doing the marquee, pressing E in empty canvas will invoke the Free Transform tool or the tool the shortcut 'E' is assigned to.
We made a lot of effort in building this capability, so please try it out and let us what you all think!
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NO MODIFIER KEYS. Make this a selectable preference, period. That way nobody is offended.
Better yet: Make the default mode selectable in preferences, and have Option toggle to the other one. As noted already, Shift is not viable because it's already used to add or subtract from selections.
Customers have been asking for this for well over a decade, but Adobe has abandoned Illustrator. Most people have moved on to competent, maintained applications like Affinity Designer (which offers this mode by default).
Sketch is also growing in popularity, and offers this mode; it, however, does only offer it through a modifier key. Changing that limitation is an outstanding request in their forums.
Corel Draw uses this mode by default, if I remember correctly.
Face it people: Illustrator is abandonware.
So much for Adobe's rental model, which was supposed to fund bug fixes like this.
This has been requested for over a decade.