Re: Request for documentation explanation

[Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com>]

Hi, Hrvoje,

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Hrvoje Niksic <hrvoje niksic avl com> wrote:
> 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.

So, how do I get number of logical lines?
> From GtkTextView? How?

Thank you.

> 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.
>
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