diff --git a/lib/ace/selection.js b/lib/ace/selection.js
index dd5435f1..4208fe01 100644
--- a/lib/ace/selection.js
+++ b/lib/ace/selection.js
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ var Selection = function(session) {
             while ((ch = rightOfCursor[index]) && whitespaceRe.test(ch))
                 index ++;
 
-            if (index <= 1) {
+            if (index < 1) {
                 tokenRe.lastIndex = 0;
                  while ((ch = rightOfCursor[index]) && !tokenRe.test(ch)) {
                     tokenRe.lastIndex = 0;