[Feature] Add option to search by whole keywords about vim-multiple-cursors HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi, I'd like to have this because this is how ST implements Ctrl/Cmd+D and I've gotten used to it because it is good for renaming variable names. Quite often a variable name can come up as a substring of a different variable.

The fix is obviously to insert \< and \> in the regex (which i believe is actually what * does). I am not sure if this uses the value found with :set iskeyword? but that really should be how it gets matched.

I'll look into this but maybe you could help show me where in the code I can make this modification?

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I vote for this behaviour! If not by default, at least as a configuration option.

I think this is a better solution for the following reasons:

• this is the behaviour I need most of the time;
• if the word I'm searching for happens to be a very common substring of words in my buffer, I will have a big work skipping all the matches with ;
• if I need a match by text, I can always select the desired text in visual mode and make the plugin search for it;
• having this option, I can cover both usecases (as can be seen by the former reasons); do not having it, only one usecase is well covered (I mean, without having to potentially skip lots of matches).

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Related #104 . Implemented in #105.

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@faceleg I guess this can be closed?

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@balta2ar thanks 💃

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