@michaellindon I have the following in dotspacemacs/user-config: (define-key evil-normal-state-map "->" 'sp-forward-slurp-sexp) maybe that's the arrow thing you were missing :)

@spfeiffer https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=752&v=fYsqaAL8HSU is an interesting video of Lisp State in general (skip to 12 minutes into the video).