[TxMt] Odd double-clicking on whitespace behavior - also selects tags

[Brian Tully]

First thanks to everyone who replied to my previous question.

I'm noticing a very odd behavior when I try to delete whitespace  
between two tags. Most (if not all) other text editors will select  
just the whitespace when I double-click on the whitespace area.  
However TextMate likes to also select the closing/opening bracket/ 
braces - which of course I don't want to delete.

So if I wanted to delete the space between <p>Hello              </p>

I can't double-click on the whitespace between "Hello" and "</p>"  
without TextMate also selecting the "</" in the closing "</p>" tag.

Another example is if I have a closing brace "}" that is indented too  
much and I want to line it up with its opening brace, I can no longer  
double-click on the whitespace to the left of the brace without the  
brace also being selected. In fact I wasted 15 minutes or so trying  
to figure out how I broke a PHP script before it dawned on me that  
when I deleted the whitespace I also deleted a brace.


Is there any preference or setting that changes this odd behavior?   
I'm assuming TextMate does this for a reason, but I'm scratching my  
head as to how this editing mode would be useful.

thanks in advance!

brian