Number of Lines Selected

[goober99]

Is there a way to get the number of lines selected with Lua?

[orbitalquark]

There are at least two ways I can think of: buffer:line_from_position(buffer.selection_end) - buffer:line_from_position(buffer.selection_start) select(2, buffer:get_sel_text():gsub('\n', '')) If you always want a minimum of 1, then also call `math.max(1, result)` with your result.