Found the turnoff for this feature added in Beta4 under General Appearance ...
Also, noticed that when turned off, had to close the file that I was working with and then reopen. Apply did not do the trick like I figuered it would ... even more strange was that only had to open and close the one file ... other files seemed ok ... perhaps all I needed to do was switch focus to another file and then come back ... at any rate, finally turned it off ... feature is sort of nice, but not as a default on ... at least it works now ... would recommend making default off, or making it a right click select. Very annoying if the file has a lot of numbers (like a .csv file) ... glad I can at least turn it off now.