How do you typically search for ocurrences of r as a variable / fn name? With my current search command, it just searches for the letter r, so I'll get lots of undesired matches

(in clojure-mode. and for the current buffer)

I would search with whitespace either before or after — something like: \ r or

in swiper

likewise for fn I would probably try \(r\

variables can be invoked as fns though 🙂

Probably I'm looking for something that takes advantage of the major mode's syntax table, which specifies what is a word in that language

my way is definitely not like a dedicated find-usages for a major mode or other IDE … just a “get-it-done” thing. >_<