Re: finding the beginning of the current line in a text buffer

[Rajarshi Guha <rajarshi presidency com>]

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 20:07, Kang Jeong-Hee wrote:
> On 2003.06.17 04:24, Rajarshi Guha wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I'm using a GtkTextView and its associated GtkTextBuffer. What I need
> > to do is to insert a character at the beginning of the current line when
> > the user presses a button.
> >
> > I see that I need to use gtk_text_buffer_get_iter_at_line () but how do
> > I get the current line number in the text buffer?
>
> $ grep display_line gtktextview.h
> gboolean gtk_text_view_forward_display_line           (GtkTextView       *text_view,
> gboolean gtk_text_view_backward_display_line          (GtkTextView       *text_view,
> gboolean gtk_text_view_forward_display_line_end       (GtkTextView       *text_view,
> gboolean gtk_text_view_backward_display_line_start    (GtkTextView       *text_view,
> gboolean gtk_text_view_starts_display_line            (GtkTextView       *text_view,
>
> will help you, after getting the iter of cursor from mark "insert", or by another way.


I should have rephrased that question - how do I get the iterator for
the current cursor position. I see that there is a function that returns
the 'insert' mark. But that returns a GtkTextMark - how can I go from a
text mark to an iterator?

Thanks,

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