I'm hammering away on my compo map when i take a break to watch the 2 months of zeropunctuation i missed.
When i get back in hammer and i can't select anything in the 3-d view.
So i save, close, restart, and now everytime i select somethin in 3-d the blocks have selection handles on them...
I can scale, move, rotate, and skew all within the 3-d window.
It's perplexingly convienent, but i have no clue what the hell happened.