selecting text - is this a bug or a feature..?

Hi - apologies if this is a bug that should be reported elsewhere.

When I've typed some chat, quite often I see a mistake just before I <enter> it. So I double-click the word in question to select it, AND IT SELECTS THE WHOLE LINE!

It should be single click to place the cursor, double click to select a word, and triple click to select the whole line.

Currently I'm stuck with the tedious operation of placing the cursor at the beginning of the word (or phrase) and then dragging through manually to the end of it.

Sorry, I know this sounds uber-trivial, but it really really annoys me - SL should work the way word-processors do, the way we are all used to working.

For the record, there's not a real standard in this area. Some applications seem to do things differently.

I wonder if holding shift or control while double-clicking makes it select only one word...

Actually works better if instead of double clicking, you just click once until the cursor line appears. Then you can just delete and retype.

Or do what I do, click and drag over the word in question.

Most applications do a double-click entire sentence. Some do a double-click word. And other's yet...don't do sh*t.

Excuse the French.

Nicholaz Beresford's viewer fixes this problem in this way: you double click a word and the word and the following space is selected. It was odd for me when I discovered this in Nicholaz' viewer, because though I deplored the selection of the whole text box's contents instead of a word (the standard SL handling of the double click), I had gotten used to it. Now, I have to refamiliarize myself with sanity in the text box.

On Mac OS X the standard is to single-click to place the cursor, double-click to select the word and triple-click to select a sentence. I like that behaviour so much better.

Windows seems to just leave it up to the program which is horrible as you then have no consistency whatsoever.

On Mac which is what I use, just about ALL apps have double-click = word. I can't see the sense of not having this, as needing to select words is much more common than needing to select a whole line. But I see Harravik has got there ahead of me on that.