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diff --git a/src/display_buffer.cc b/src/display_buffer.cc
index af8d15e4..a56fe612 100644
--- a/src/display_buffer.cc
+++ b/src/display_buffer.cc
@@ -1,10 +1,48 @@
 #include "display_buffer.hh"
 
 #include "assert.hh"
+#include "buffer.hh"
+#include "utf8.hh"
 
 namespace Kakoune
 {
 
+StringView DisplayAtom::content() const
+{
+    switch (m_type)
+    {
+        case BufferRange:
+        {
+            auto line = (*m_buffer)[m_begin.line];
+            if (m_begin.line == m_end.line)
+                return line.substr(m_begin.column, m_end.column - m_begin.column);
+            else if (m_begin.line+1 == m_end.line and m_end.column == 0)
+                return line.substr(m_begin.column);
+            break;
+        }
+        case Text:
+        case ReplacedBufferRange:
+            return m_text;
+    }
+    kak_assert(false);
+    return {};
+}
+
+CharCount DisplayAtom::length() const
+{
+    switch (m_type)
+    {
+        case BufferRange:
+           return utf8::distance(m_buffer->iterator_at(m_begin),
+                                 m_buffer->iterator_at(m_end));
+        case Text:
+        case ReplacedBufferRange:
+           return m_text.char_length();
+    }
+    kak_assert(false);
+    return 0;
+}
+
 void DisplayAtom::trim_begin(CharCount count)
 {
     if (m_type == BufferRange)