Re: gtk_text_buffer_get_* should return length? (1.3.6)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu@pobox.com> writes: 
> To raise the ante, here's a use case: i want to copy a small part
> of a long document into a separate GtkTextBuffer, preserving some
> or all of the tags.  i can't find an API to do that.  i suspected
> that gtk_text_buffer_get_slice might be helpful but it just does
> padding.

gtk_text_buffer_insert_range() may be useful for this.
It will preserve tags if the buffers share the same tag table. 

Havoc