Visual Studio 2010 double-click to select whitespace is too aggressive

Question

In Visual Studio 2008 double clicking in a large section of whitespace would select all the contiguous whitespace only. Now I am using Visual Studio 2010 and double clicking in a large section of whitespace selects the word preceding and the word following the whitespace as well. This makes cleaning up large sections of whitespace more difficult (for alignment or other reasons). Is there a setting or way to get the older behavior?

Answer 1

This issue is killing me... glad I'm not the only one. Misery loves company. Anyway, here's a couple of links of MS acknowledging the issue, and a MS feedback post about it. Bottom line, they "may" try to fix it for the next version of VS. Ouch. It's on the Won't Fix list. The work around is a joke. I hope someone figures out a better fix or work around.

Acknowledgment of issue

Feedback post