diff --git a/src/terminal/Screen.zig b/src/terminal/Screen.zig
index fb89a0087..06d19b84d 100644
--- a/src/terminal/Screen.zig
+++ b/src/terminal/Screen.zig
@@ -5543,6 +5543,7 @@ test "Screen: clear above cursor with history" {
     try testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 0), s.cursor.y);
 }
 
+// X
 test "Screen: selectionString basic" {
     const testing = std.testing;
     const alloc = testing.allocator;
@@ -5563,6 +5564,7 @@ test "Screen: selectionString basic" {
     }
 }
 
+// X
 test "Screen: selectionString start outside of written area" {
     const testing = std.testing;
     const alloc = testing.allocator;
@@ -5583,6 +5585,7 @@ test "Screen: selectionString start outside of written area" {
     }
 }
 
+// X
 test "Screen: selectionString end outside of written area" {
     const testing = std.testing;
     const alloc = testing.allocator;
@@ -5603,6 +5606,7 @@ test "Screen: selectionString end outside of written area" {
     }
 }
 
+// X
 test "Screen: selectionString trim space" {
     const testing = std.testing;
     const alloc = testing.allocator;
diff --git a/src/terminal2/Screen.zig b/src/terminal2/Screen.zig
index 36ab792cd..7889a7b54 100644
--- a/src/terminal2/Screen.zig
+++ b/src/terminal2/Screen.zig
@@ -830,18 +830,83 @@ pub fn manualStyleUpdate(self: *Screen) !void {
 /// Returns the raw text associated with a selection. This will unwrap
 /// soft-wrapped edges. The returned slice is owned by the caller and allocated
 /// using alloc, not the allocator associated with the screen (unless they match).
-// pub fn selectionString(
-//     self: *Screen,
-//     alloc: Allocator,
-//     sel: Selection,
-//     trim: bool,
-// ) ![:0]const u8 {
-//     _ = self;
-//     _ = alloc;
-//     _ = sel;
-//     _ = trim;
-//     @panic("TODO");
-// }
+pub fn selectionString(
+    self: *Screen,
+    alloc: Allocator,
+    sel: Selection,
+    trim: bool,
+) ![:0]const u8 {
+    // Use an ArrayList so that we can grow the array as we go. We
+    // build an initial capacity of just our rows in our selection times
+    // columns. It can be more or less based on graphemes, newlines, etc.
+    var strbuilder = std.ArrayList(u8).init(alloc);
+    defer strbuilder.deinit();
+
+    const sel_ordered = sel.ordered(self, .forward);
+    var page_it = sel.start().pageIterator(.right_down, sel.end());
+    var row_count: usize = 0;
+    while (page_it.next()) |chunk| {
+        const rows = chunk.rows();
+        for (rows) |row| {
+            const cells_ptr = row.cells.ptr(chunk.page.data.memory);
+
+            const start_x = if (row_count == 0 or sel_ordered.rectangle)
+                sel_ordered.start().x
+            else
+                0;
+            const end_x = if (row_count == rows.len - 1 or sel_ordered.rectangle)
+                sel_ordered.end().x + 1
+            else
+                self.pages.cols;
+
+            const cells = cells_ptr[start_x..end_x];
+            for (cells) |cell| {
+                if (!cell.hasText()) continue;
+                const char = if (cell.content.codepoint > 0) cell.content.codepoint else ' ';
+
+                var buf: [4]u8 = undefined;
+                const encode_len = try std.unicode.utf8Encode(char, &buf);
+                try strbuilder.appendSlice(buf[0..encode_len]);
+            }
+            // TODO: graphemes
+
+            if (!row.wrap or sel_ordered.rectangle) {
+                try strbuilder.append('\n');
+            }
+
+            row_count += 1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Remove any trailing spaces on lines. We could do optimize this by
+    // doing this in the loop above but this isn't very hot path code and
+    // this is simple.
+    if (trim) {
+        var it = std.mem.tokenizeScalar(u8, strbuilder.items, '\n');
+
+        // Reset our items. We retain our capacity. Because we're only
+        // removing bytes, we know that the trimmed string must be no longer
+        // than the original string so we copy directly back into our
+        // allocated memory.
+        strbuilder.clearRetainingCapacity();
+        while (it.next()) |line| {
+            const trimmed = std.mem.trimRight(u8, line, " \t");
+            const i = strbuilder.items.len;
+            strbuilder.items.len += trimmed.len;
+            std.mem.copyForwards(u8, strbuilder.items[i..], trimmed);
+            strbuilder.appendAssumeCapacity('\n');
+        }
+
+        // Remove our trailing newline again
+        if (strbuilder.items.len > 0) strbuilder.items.len -= 1;
+    }
+
+    // Get our final string
+    const string = try strbuilder.toOwnedSliceSentinel(0);
+    errdefer alloc.free(string);
+
+    return string;
+}
 
 /// Select the line under the given point. This will select across soft-wrapped
 /// lines and will omit the leading and trailing whitespace. If the point is
@@ -5001,3 +5066,101 @@ test "Screen: promptPath" {
         try testing.expectEqual(@as(isize, 1), path.y);
     }
 }
+
+test "Screen: selectionString basic" {
+    const testing = std.testing;
+    const alloc = testing.allocator;
+
+    var s = try init(alloc, 5, 3, 0);
+    defer s.deinit();
+    const str = "1ABCD\n2EFGH\n3IJKL";
+    try s.testWriteString(str);
+
+    {
+        const sel = Selection.init(
+            s.pages.pin(.{ .screen = .{ .x = 0, .y = 1 } }).?,
+            s.pages.pin(.{ .screen = .{ .x = 2, .y = 2 } }).?,
+            false,
+        );
+        const contents = try s.selectionString(alloc, sel, true);
+        defer alloc.free(contents);
+        const expected = "2EFGH\n3IJ";
+        try testing.expectEqualStrings(expected, contents);
+    }
+}
+
+test "Screen: selectionString start outside of written area" {
+    const testing = std.testing;
+    const alloc = testing.allocator;
+
+    var s = try init(alloc, 5, 10, 0);
+    defer s.deinit();
+    const str = "1ABCD\n2EFGH\n3IJKL";
+    try s.testWriteString(str);
+
+    {
+        const sel = Selection.init(
+            s.pages.pin(.{ .screen = .{ .x = 0, .y = 5 } }).?,
+            s.pages.pin(.{ .screen = .{ .x = 2, .y = 6 } }).?,
+            false,
+        );
+        const contents = try s.selectionString(alloc, sel, true);
+        defer alloc.free(contents);
+        const expected = "";
+        try testing.expectEqualStrings(expected, contents);
+    }
+}
+
+test "Screen: selectionString end outside of written area" {
+    const testing = std.testing;
+    const alloc = testing.allocator;
+
+    var s = try init(alloc, 5, 10, 0);
+    defer s.deinit();
+    const str = "1ABCD\n2EFGH\n3IJKL";
+    try s.testWriteString(str);
+
+    {
+        const sel = Selection.init(
+            s.pages.pin(.{ .screen = .{ .x = 0, .y = 2 } }).?,
+            s.pages.pin(.{ .screen = .{ .x = 2, .y = 6 } }).?,
+            false,
+        );
+        const contents = try s.selectionString(alloc, sel, true);
+        defer alloc.free(contents);
+        const expected = "3IJKL";
+        try testing.expectEqualStrings(expected, contents);
+    }
+}
+
+test "Screen: selectionString trim space" {
+    const testing = std.testing;
+    const alloc = testing.allocator;
+
+    var s = try init(alloc, 5, 3, 0);
+    defer s.deinit();
+    const str = "1AB  \n2EFGH\n3IJKL";
+    try s.testWriteString(str);
+
+    const sel = Selection.init(
+        s.pages.pin(.{ .screen = .{ .x = 0, .y = 0 } }).?,
+        s.pages.pin(.{ .screen = .{ .x = 2, .y = 1 } }).?,
+        false,
+    );
+
+    {
+        const contents = try s.selectionString(alloc, sel, true);
+        defer alloc.free(contents);
+        const expected = "1AB\n2EF";
+        try testing.expectEqualStrings(expected, contents);
+    }
+
+    // No trim
+    // TODO(paged-terminal): we need to trim unwritten space
+    // {
+    //     const contents = try s.selectionString(alloc, sel, false);
+    //     defer alloc.free(contents);
+    //     const expected = "1AB  \n2EF";
+    //     try testing.expectEqualStrings(expected, contents);
+    // }
+}