Re: [gedit-list] Need help in accessing the text from gedit text editor programmatically

[Peter Bittner <peter bittner gmx net>]

Hi Kantha,

not sure whether that can help you much, but I have a gedit plugin
that accesses the text of the current editor window (and converts it
to HTML for displaying it in the bottom panel).

https://github.com/bittner/gedit-reST-plugin/blob/gedit-3.14/reST/restructuredtext.py#L58

It's kind of like:

    view = parent_window.get_active_view()
    doc = view.get_buffer()
    text = doc.get_text()

See the implementation on GitHub for details.

Hope that helps,
Peter



2015-04-17 20:21 GMT+02:00 Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>:
> Hi Kantha,
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 05:52:04PM +0530, Kantha Girish wrote:
> > I am trying to develop a plugin for gedit in python. Since the
> > documentation is not so informative in terms of python, I need some help on
> > how to access the text which is being typed in the active editor. A small
> > example would be good as I couldn't even figure out the number of
> > parameters and what type of parameters are being used by a particular
> > method under a particular object.
>
> You should read some documentation on how to write Python programs while
> using GObject-based libraries. I don't know much about Python, so I
> can't really help you on that.
>
> gedit is based on GtkTextView and GtkSourceView, see:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GtkSourceView
> http://www.bravegnu.org/gtktext/
>
> And for the plugin system, libpeas is used.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Sébastien