diff --git a/runtime/autoload/macvim.vim b/runtime/autoload/macvim.vim
index fa494539eb..293d7beb5d 100644
--- a/runtime/autoload/macvim.vim
+++ b/runtime/autoload/macvim.vim
@@ -3,62 +3,11 @@ vim9script
 # Maintainer:   Yee Cheng Chin (macvim-dev@macvim.org)
 # Last Change:  2023-03-15
 
-# Retrieves the text under the selection, without polluting the registers.
-# This is easier if we could yank, but we don't know what the user has been
-# doing. One way we could have accomplished this was to save the register info
-# and then restore it, but this runs into problems if the unnamed register was
-# pointing to the "* register as setting and restoring the system clipboard
-# could be iffy (if there are non-text items in the clipboard). It's cleaner
-# to just use a pure Vimscript solution without having to rely on yank.
-def SelectedText(): string
-  var [line_start, column_start] = getpos("'<")[1 : 2]
-  var [line_end, column_end] = getpos("'>")[1 : 2]
-  final lines = getline(line_start, line_end)
-  if len(lines) == 0
-    return ''
-  endif
-
-  const visualmode = visualmode()
-
-  if visualmode ==# 'v'
-    if line_start == line_end && column_start == column_end
-      # Exclusive has a special case where you always select at least one
-      # char, so just handle the case here.
-      return lines[0][column_start - 1]
-    endif
-    if &selection ==# "exclusive"
-      column_end -= 1 # exclusive selection don't count the last column (usually)
-    endif
-    lines[-1] = lines[-1][ : column_end - 1]
-    lines[0] = lines[0][column_start - 1 : ]
-  elseif visualmode ==# "\<C-V>"
-    if column_end <= column_start
-      # This can happen with v_O, need to swap start/end
-      const temp = column_start
-      column_start = column_end
-      column_end = temp
-      # Also, exclusive mode is weird in this state in that we don't need to
-      # do column_end -= 1, and it acts like inclusive instead.
-    else
-      if &selection ==# "exclusive"
-        column_end -= 1 # normal exclusive behavior, need to cull the last column.
-      endif
-    endif
-    for idx in range(len(lines))
-      lines[idx] = lines[idx][column_start - 1 : column_end - 1]
-    endfor
-  else
-    # Line mode doesn't have to do anything to trim the lines
-  endif
-  return join(lines, "\n")
-enddef
-
-
 # Ask macOS to show the definition of the last selected text. Note that this
 # uses '<, and therefore has to be used in normal mode where the mark has
 # already been updated.
 export def ShowDefinitionSelected()
-  const sel_text = SelectedText()
+  const sel_text = join(getregion(getpos("'<"), getpos("'>"), { type: visualmode(), exclusive: (&selection ==# "exclusive") }), "\n")
   if len(sel_text) > 0
     const sel_start = getpos("'<")
     const sel_screenpos = win_getid()->screenpos(sel_start[1], sel_start[2])