selecting objects outside mask boundary

Hi,

On Ai CS3, while working with clipping masks I've been used to select masked objects with the direct selection tool, even the ones that fall outside the mask boundary.

I can't do so with the CC version of Ai. Instead I have first to select it with the lasso tool. One can do so as well with the layers or else by selecting edit contents in the control box.

So it's actually possible, but since I edit masked objects quite often those extra-steps are just annoying.

Would be in the preferences or else some option to fix it? Or do I have to make do with some bias..