Answering mail: Mail app auto-selects subject

Hi,
today i experienced a very strange behaviour in mail app - this happens with every kind of mail (imap, pop, exchange) :
When I'm answering to any received mail by clicking the "Answer" button/link, the answer mail opened. So far so good. But if try to enter the subject, system auto-selects entered text starting after the second entered character. The count of auto-selected characters depends on my writing velocity. The problem is, that after system auto-selects entered text whilst I'm continuing typing, my text is replaced with the next typed characters. So I'm not able to write any word.
I know it sounds strange, cause it is strange. First I thought there is someone behind me who did this with a kind of remote control. But after a few investigations i found out, that this behaviour only happens, when I'm answering a received mail or if I clicked on a "mailto:" Link in another mail.
I' using a brand new 15'' MPB with OS X Maverick with all latest patches (incl. Mail-Patch).
Is there any new functionallity in mail app which i did not realise???
Greez

Hi,
I found a way to prevent this odd behaviour:
Deactivate spell check while typing. That's it.
I do not know, why spell checking behaves like that, but....
Bye

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