Wings 2.2.6

[micheus]

Example: I select two edges and connect. The connection is still highlighted. To go to two other edges to cut them I have to deselect the still highlighted edge. I guess I could click to deselect, but suppose I subdivide a loop and hundreds of verts are lit. Naturally you would use the space bar to deselect and then we go back to the problem I mentioned. Do you have another workflow?

I think you are talking about other thing than the "Conditional Deselection" here.

It looks like you would like to execute these commands without leaving any new resultant element selected. In this case, that is not possible.

It works that way for speed up the process. In general we cut to edges to create new connections. So get the vertices selected will help in the next step to connect them.there are other situations that will happen.

So, in this case, if you are not interested to do nothing with the resulting element you just deselect them (hitting one key).

With that settings port told you, the selection mode will stay the same until you chose another one (v, e,f,b) or hit the space bar twice ("double click").