implement Selection:remove()

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 59e2243..bc0d310 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 - fix documentation of initial value to 'syntax' option
 - fix a ~ being considered a special character in path patterns (except at the start)
 - improvements to and clean-up of vis-open
+- add Selection:remove() to lua API
 
 
 ## [0.8] - 2022-11-01
diff --git a/vis-lua.c b/vis-lua.c
index 24b911e..9bf5629 100644
--- a/vis-lua.c
+++ b/vis-lua.c
@@ -2057,10 +2057,23 @@ static int window_selection_to(lua_State *L) {
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/***
+ * Remove selection.
+ * @function remove
+ */
+static int window_selection_remove(lua_State *L) {
+	Selection *sel = obj_lightref_check(L, 1, VIS_LUA_TYPE_SELECTION);
+	if (sel) {
+		view_selections_dispose(sel);
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static const struct luaL_Reg window_selection_funcs[] = {
 	{ "__index", window_selection_index },
 	{ "__newindex", window_selection_newindex },
 	{ "to", window_selection_to },
+	{ "remove", window_selection_remove },
 	{ NULL, NULL },
 };