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I tried this and had the same result, but then realized that it's not a bug
Line != mesh...
That's not exactly true. A mesh consists of lines, but lines do not necessarily make a mesh. For instance, when you create a box primitive, it consists of several lines, but in order to manipulate the points and/or edges, you must first convert all of these lines into a mesh. Once you have a mesh, you can manipuliate points, edges, faces to your heart's content.
In last pic you didn't use antialias?
. You have no modifiers on this one, so the problem(not big deal ) is that you didn't convert it to mesh. Select the object in edit mode and go Build--->Convert to Mesh.You have to do that for every part,if you want to edit them in point edit mode. In eggplant file the sphere is not converted too. Do the same if you want to change something, but it's not necessarily if you want only to use a modifier, modifiers work with parametric shapes(called like that)
About the eggplant: you have 3 modifiers, 2 on plant and 1 on sphere. The one on plant is bended and binded, others are not. You have to effect it. Click on it and you'll see that the whole plant and the modifier will be selected(all this in edit mode). Then go Build--->Modifiers--->Effect modifier. Or you can unbind the modifier if you want change something...Build--->Modifiers--->unbind modifier. Notice that doing this your model will return to start position, but the modifier will stay bended. Just remember, you can not doing anything with your object in point edit mode when you have binded a modifier on it.
). Just turn back to Edit mode.
