What does select adjacent objects do ?

[VladD]

(12-11-2014 10:32 PM)ggaliens Wrote:  What does select adjacent objects do ?

There is no status line tip.

Maybe just a placeholder of sorts for future ?

Try this: create a default sphere, select one edge, and hit 'e', even though you're already in edge selection mode, this will add to the selected edge the adjacent edges only (making this adjacent submenu unecessary, imo), not all the connected edges.
Now, for comparison, unselect, re-select the same edge and this time hit '+'. You'll see the difference.

It's probably more apparent with faces selections. And actually, I often use f/adjacent faces "expand" that way instead of just growing up a face selection in some specific case. It's useful in vertices mode too.

Combine this with a hotkey set on "deselect previous", and you can quickly obtain selections that would take more clicks in other softwares.