Double clicking on text in various gnome applications has markedly different
results in terms of what is selected (highlighted) and I would have thought that
in the interests of consistency, the results should be the same.

I've filed this under gedit because I think that gedit (of which I am a huge fan
and have used and filed bug reports against before Chema even became lead
developer and before b-g-o even existed) is the biggest offender.

Try pasting the text below into various gnome apps and perform the tests below:

     the color I'm after is #12abc3 in text.html

1. what is selected when you double-click over 'abc' in #12abc3
2. what is selected when you double-click over 'text' in text.html
3. what is selected when you double-click in the space in 'in text.html'

Some outcomes I've observed.

In evolution (composer and mail view):
  1. '#12abc3' is selected
  2. text.html is selected
  3. either 'in' or 'text.html' is selected.  It seems to depend on what the
mouse is closer to.

In gnome-terminal:
  1. '#12abc3' is selected
  2. 'text.html' is selected
  3. the space is selected.

In gedit:
  1. 'abc' is selected
  2. 'text' is selected
  3. the space is selected

In Mozilla:
  1. '#12abc3' is selected
  2. 'text.html' is selected
  3. the 'in ' is selected.

In firefox:
  1. '#12abc3' is selected
  2. 'text.html' is selected
  3. the 'in text.html' is selected.

In epiphany:
  1. '#12abc3' is selected
  2. 'text.html' is selected
  3. the 'in text.html' is selected.

(NOTE: the last three are used as a comparison because epiphany relies on gecko
so you would expect these three to be the same, and also because it may be that
gnome needs to do the same as mozilla/firefox if these actions are to be truly
consistent across all gnome based apps.)