Those who use nightly builds on Windows and don’t follow bug tracker or new features actively:
Does the board item highlight when hovering over selection clarification menu items work for you? See https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1594029. If it doesn’t work, you may not be aware of its existence at all, so read the bug report to know what feature it is if you don’t know yet.
And, of course, please attach your system information (it may depend on whoever knows, processor, graphics card, drivers, Win version… I have here an old 64bit Win7 with integrated Intel graphics and it doesn’t work for me).
If I’m understanding it correctly, if you say several objects overlapping (for example, a pad and a track) and you right click on that area and get selection clarification menu you should also see all the objects highlighted? If so, it doesn’t work for me either.
Application: kicad
Version: (2018-02-14 revision 6afdf1cf8)-makepkg, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.3
libcurl/7.54.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.11 libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.23.1 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.3 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.60.0
Curl: 7.54.1
Compiler: GCC 7.1.0 with C++ ABI 1011