Method

GtkSourceSearchContextreplace

Declaration [src]

gboolean
gtk_source_search_context_replace (
  GtkSourceSearchContext* search,
  GtkTextIter* match_start,
  GtkTextIter* match_end,
  const gchar* replace,
  gint replace_length,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Replaces a search match by another text. If match_start and match_end doesn’t correspond to a search match, FALSE is returned.

match_start and match_end iters are revalidated to point to the replacement text boundaries.

For a regular expression replacement, you can check if replace is valid by calling g_regex_check_replacement(). The replace text can contain backreferences.

Parameters

match_start GtkTextIter
 

The start of the match to replace.

 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
match_end GtkTextIter
 

The end of the match to replace.

 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
replace const gchar*
 

The replacement text.

 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
 The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
replace_length gint
 

The length of replace in bytes, or -1.

error GError **
  The return location for a GError*, or NULL.

Return value

Returns: gboolean
 

Whether the match has been replaced.