Method

GtkSourceSearchContextreplace_all

Declaration [src]

guint
gtk_source_search_context_replace_all (
  GtkSourceSearchContext* search,
  const gchar* replace,
  gint replace_length,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Replaces all search matches by another text.

It is a synchronous function, so it can block the user interface.

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

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: guint
 

The number of replaced matches.