Overview
GtkSourceView is a GNOME library that extends GtkTextView, the standard GTK widget for multiline text editing. GtkSourceView adds support for syntax highlighting, undo/redo, file loading and saving, search and replace, a completion system, printing, displaying line numbers, and other features typical of a source code editor.
See the GtkSourceView website.
GtkSourceView 5 depends on GTK 4.
pkg-config name
For GtkSourceView 5, the pkg-config name is: gtksourceview-5
To compile a program that uses GtkSourceView 5, you can for example use the following command:
$ gcc hello.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtksourceview-5` -o hello
Library Initialization
Your application MUST initialize GtkSourceView from main()
.
Call gtk_source_init()
or it’s variant within your programming language.
A great place to do this is right after calling gtk_init()
.
In language bindings, this function is often named similar to GtkSource.init()
.