Re: Request for documentation explanation

[Hrvoje Niksic <hrvoje niksic avl com>]

On 07/12/2014 10:52 AM, Igor Korot wrote:
> Hi, ALL,
> On the link https://developer.gnome.org/gtk2/stable/GtkTextIter.html#gtk-text-iter-get-line
> it does not say whether it will return the number of physical lines or
> number of logical lines.
>
> Could someone please sched some light on this?

A GtkTextBuffer must return the physical line number (number of newlines 
between the beginning of buffer and the iterator's position) because a 
text buffer doesn't have the information about fonts in use and the 
width of the text view.

Note that showing a line number of a display line isn't very useful to 
the end user. Physical line numbers help navigation based on diagnostics 
from external tools (compilers, syntax checkers, etc.), while display 
lines provide no such benefits.