diff --git a/src/box_.rs b/src/box_.rs
index 3923501..6ec2831 100644
--- a/src/box_.rs
+++ b/src/box_.rs
@@ -4,9 +4,12 @@ use kakplugin::{
 use std::cmp::{max, min};
 #[derive(clap::StructOpt, Debug)]
 pub struct Options {
-    // /// Bounding box mode, which selects the largest box to contain everything
+    /// Bounding box mode, which selects the largest box to contain everything
     #[clap(short, long, help = "Select the bonding box of all selections")]
     bounding_box: bool,
+    /// Excludes newlines from resulting selection
+    #[clap(short, long, help = "Do not include newlines")]
+    no_newline: bool,
 }
 
 pub fn box_(options: &Options) -> Result<String, KakError> {
@@ -61,12 +64,20 @@ where
 /// Implementation that converts each selection to a box with the top left corner at min(anchor.col, cursor.col) and bottom right at max(anchor.col, cursor.col)
 ///
 /// Do this by getting each selection, then getting each whole-row (col 0 to col max) and passing the range of whole-rows into helper `to_boxed_selections`
-fn boxed_selections(_options: &Options) -> Result<Vec<SelectionDesc>, KakError> {
+fn boxed_selections(options: &Options) -> Result<Vec<SelectionDesc>, KakError> {
     // The selections we want to box, one per box
     let selections_desc = get_selections_desc::<&str>(None)?;
 
+    let whole_line_selection_command = if options.no_newline {
+        // Select everything and only keep non-newlines
+        "<a-x>s^[^\\n]+<ret>"
+    } else {
+        // Select everything and split
+        "<a-x><a-s>"
+    };
+
     // Whole-row selections split on newline
-    let selections_desc_rows = get_selections_desc(Some("<a-x><a-s>"))?;
+    let selections_desc_rows = get_selections_desc(Some(whole_line_selection_command))?;
 
     Ok(selections_desc
         .iter()
diff --git a/src/invert.rs b/src/invert.rs
index d275192..145e2f1 100644
--- a/src/invert.rs
+++ b/src/invert.rs
@@ -4,8 +4,12 @@ use kakplugin::{
 };
 use std::{fs, str::FromStr};
 #[derive(clap::StructOpt, Debug)]
-pub struct Options;
-pub fn invert(_options: &Options) -> Result<String, KakError> {
+pub struct Options {
+    #[clap(short, long, help = "Do not include newlines")]
+    no_newline: bool,
+}
+
+pub fn invert(options: &Options) -> Result<String, KakError> {
     // The selections to invert
     let mut split_selections_desc: Vec<(usize, Vec<SelectionDesc>)> = {
         // Split by multiline so subtraction is defined (see below)
@@ -18,10 +22,18 @@ pub fn invert(_options: &Options) -> Result<String, KakError> {
 
     let count_selections = split_selections_desc.len();
 
+    let whole_document_selection_command = if options.no_newline {
+        // Select everything and only keep non-newlines
+        "%s^[^\\n]+<ret>"
+    } else {
+        // Select everything and split
+        "%<a-s>"
+    };
+
     let document_descs: Vec<SelectionDesc> = {
         // Every line in the document as a selectiondesc
         // Split by line because subtracting cross-multiline is not always defined for multiline selection descs (ex: 1.1,3.3 - 2.1,3.3 = 1.1,1.<?>)
-        get_selections_desc(Some("%<a-s>"))?
+        get_selections_desc(Some(whole_document_selection_command))?
             .into_iter()
             // dd - The full row selectiondesc, spanning from col 1 to the rightmost col, for every row in the file
             .map(|dd: SelectionDesc| {
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 1d130ac..eeda230 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ enum Commands {
     Shuf(shuf::Options),
     #[clap(about = "Find unique selections based on optional regex match")]
     Uniq(uniq::Options),
-    #[clap(about = "Invert all selections", visible_aliases = &["inverse"])]
+    #[clap(about = "Invert all selections", visible_aliases = &["inv", "inverse"])]
     Invert(invert::Options),
     #[clap(about = "Evaluate selections as a math expression", visible_aliases = &["bc", "eval"])]
     MathEval(math_eval::Options),