> But it does, there is plenty of uncertainty: you can have a long sentence that wraps multiple lines, includes quotes and maybe code snippets with . inside them or just ..., so you can't easily tell where a sentence begins and where it ends.

Multiple lines or … doesn’t matter to vim if you want to something with a sentence since a sentence is defined as ending at a '.', '!' or '?' followed by either the end of a line, or by a space or tab. Any number of closing ')', ']', '"' and ''' characters may appear after the '.', '!' or '?' before the spaces, tabs or end of line. A paragraph and section boundary is also a sentence boundary.

One code snippet inside a sentence with ˋ. ˋ could be d2) or simply d). Feel free to add . For every . Or count them.

Word selector: try W to select that function with a , in its name. But maybe it’s better to look where your special word ends and do what you *t*+I’ll that end like ct)