Oh I see. A long click should also select and not open, as well as holding control and then click. I'm still trying to figure out how I will expose these information to a new user.
I notice now what you mention but still hard to discover on your own. Perhaps implementing the Windows double click type functionality (as a setting?) would be familiar to most (as in, most people use Windows) as people are used to one click to select and a quick double click to open. But this also seems to put more emphasis on editing / the interface than the actual functionality.