Reselect prefab when editor play mode exits?

I spend 80% of my time in Unity editing a prefab in the prefab editor and pressing 'play' to view it in action. When I press play, the prefab is deselected and I have to double click it again to enter the editor when play mode exits. Would be nice if the editor remembered that I was in a prefab editor window.
If there is a solution to this issue, let me know,
thanks!

 

The editor shouldn't exit Prefab Mode when going in Play Mode except if a script on the Prefab has an ExecuteInEditMode attribute, and in that case you would get a dialog.

But you also say "select" and "deselect" which is different from entering/exiting Prefab Mode. This makes me unsure of what you mean. Could you post a video showing what you're talking about?

 

thanks for the help! I'm on Unity 2018 (maybe this is different in 2019?)
in the gif below, you can see I'm in a prefab view. Then when I press play/stop, I am no longer in a prefab and I need to re-enter the prefab view.

 

What is the exact version of 2018 you're using? Does it still happen in Unity 2018.4.15? If so, can you please file a bug report, so we can investigate. Thanks!

 

2018.4.12f1. We will try to upgrade and see if that fixes the issue,
thank you

 

ah ok, there *was* a component on the prefab with [ExecuteInEditMode], however, I do not get a warning. When I remove the [ExecuteInEditMode], it works fine