Re: A visual snippet browser

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jan 19, 2006, at 3:06 PM, zentara wrote:

> I was wondering if there was a way to filter out the line numbers
> upon a selection or copy event? Is there some trick to tag some
> text so it is visible to see, but invisible to a copy/selection?


You can modify your application to control supplying the clipboard  
contents manually, and in that callback, filter off the line numbers  
with regular expressions.

If you want to prevent them being selected in the first place, there  
are ways to control what goes in the margin of your textbuffer.  This  
is the trick the highly recommended GtkSourceView uses, if i recall  
correctly.


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