If the cursor is on fi[z]z-buzz1 and you do something like g * to select it only fizz will be highlighted when the whole fizz-buzz ought to be selected. I could be doing a poor job explaining this.

@b2berry why don't you use * instead of g *?

Ah, yeah good point. I still need a solution for treating them as whole words, though - I just picked a bad example

In the case of fizz-buzz if my cursor is on fi[z]z-buzz and I do something like cw it will only replace fizz and i’ll be left with []-buzz where [] is the cursor

then you need to use cW and not cw

…. well hell yeah!

Thanks for the great info! That’s so basic, but still learning a lot of 101 level shiz with spacemacs.

Thanks @ag !

@b2berry my pleasure