Re: "apply-tag": how to change behavior?

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:10:53PM -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > I'm working on a simple built-in editor for my program, using a
> > GtkTextView.  I'd like to add dynamic syntax highlighting (simple
> > example: if a line begins with '#' it's a comment and will be shown in
> > a different color)...

> One way you might do this is to connect_after() to insert_text and
> have the signal handler apply the tag to the just-inserted text.
>
> You can't really change what apply_tag does, because that will break
> most of the API.
>
> You might also look at just using the gtksourceview library, it's
> required for gedit and seems like a pretty complete syntax
> highlighting solution.

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll take a look at gtksourceview.

Allin Cottrell.