>What another condition ?

I think it was "5th line after wrapping", not "5th paragraph". ALines() chops into paragraphs, but Tore's situation is, if I got it right, about 5th displayed line - which depends on font and width of the editbox. Which is why this is tricky.

>the cursor ycurs contains each line returned.the line 5 is in record 5 of alines or in 2th button (memowidth 8192).
>

>sele ycurs
>go 5
>_cliptext=yline  &&line 5 in clipboard
>messagebox(yline)
>

>Regards