In emacs your repeat commands are C-u <number> <other command>. Your selection would be C-space C-s func M-b. M-b causes it to go back to the beginning of the

In emacs your repeat commands are C-u <number> <other command>. Your selection would be C-space C-s func M-b. M-b causes it to go back to the beginning of the word and search ends, you can still adjust the selection with other movements. It's not as tight as V?<regex> but it's still composable. Or you use evil mode and get those vi-style bindings in the editor. EDIT: Actually, playing around with your `V?` command doesn't it select that entire line rather than to that pattern? So the emacs equivalent would actually be: C-space C-M-s ^func C-e