GtkSourceLanguage: GtkSourceView 4 Reference Manual

GtkSourceLanguage

GtkSourceLanguage — Represents a syntax highlighted language

Functions

const gchar *	gtk_source_language_get_id ()
const gchar *	gtk_source_language_get_name ()
const gchar *	gtk_source_language_get_section ()
gboolean	gtk_source_language_get_hidden ()
const gchar *	gtk_source_language_get_metadata ()
gchar **	gtk_source_language_get_mime_types ()
gchar **	gtk_source_language_get_globs ()
const gchar *	gtk_source_language_get_style_name ()
gchar **	gtk_source_language_get_style_ids ()
const gchar *	gtk_source_language_get_style_fallback ()

Properties

gboolean	hidden	Read
char *	id	Read
char *	name	Read
char *	section	Read

Types and Values

GtkSourceLanguage

Object Hierarchy

    GObject
    ╰── GtkSourceLanguage

Includes

#include <gtksourceview/gtksource.h>

Description

A GtkSourceLanguage represents a programming or markup language, affecting syntax highlighting and context classes.

Use GtkSourceLanguageManager to obtain a GtkSourceLanguage instance, and gtk_source_buffer_set_language() to apply it to a GtkSourceBuffer.

Functions

gtk_source_language_get_id ()

const gchar *
gtk_source_language_get_id (GtkSourceLanguage *language);

Returns the ID of the language. The ID is not locale-dependent. The returned string is owned by language and should not be freed or modified.

Parameters

language

a GtkSourceLanguage.

Returns

the ID of language .

gtk_source_language_get_name ()

const gchar *
gtk_source_language_get_name (GtkSourceLanguage *language);

Returns the localized name of the language. The returned string is owned by language and should not be freed or modified.

Parameters

language

a GtkSourceLanguage.

Returns

the name of language .

gtk_source_language_get_section ()

const gchar *
gtk_source_language_get_section (GtkSourceLanguage *language);

Returns the localized section of the language. Each language belong to a section (ex. HTML belogs to the Markup section). The returned string is owned by language and should not be freed or modified.

Parameters

language

a GtkSourceLanguage.

Returns

the section of language .

gtk_source_language_get_hidden ()

gboolean
gtk_source_language_get_hidden (GtkSourceLanguage *language);

Returns whether the language should be hidden from the user.

Parameters

language

a GtkSourceLanguage

Returns

TRUE if the language should be hidden, FALSE otherwise.

gtk_source_language_get_metadata ()

const gchar *
gtk_source_language_get_metadata (GtkSourceLanguage *language,
                                  const gchar *name);

Parameters

language	a GtkSourceLanguage.
name	metadata property name.

Returns

value of property name stored in the metadata of language or NULL if language does not contain the specified metadata property. The returned string is owned by language and should not be freed or modified.

[nullable][transfer none]

gtk_source_language_get_mime_types ()

gchar **
gtk_source_language_get_mime_types (GtkSourceLanguage *language);

Returns the mime types associated to this language. This is just an utility wrapper around gtk_source_language_get_metadata() to retrieve the "mimetypes" metadata property and split it into an array.

Parameters

language

a GtkSourceLanguage.

Returns

a newly-allocated NULL terminated array containing the mime types or NULL if no mime types are found. The returned array must be freed with g_strfreev().

[nullable][array zero-terminated=1][transfer full]

gtk_source_language_get_globs ()

gchar **
gtk_source_language_get_globs (GtkSourceLanguage *language);

Returns the globs associated to this language. This is just an utility wrapper around gtk_source_language_get_metadata() to retrieve the "globs" metadata property and split it into an array.

Parameters

language

a GtkSourceLanguage.

Returns

a newly-allocated NULL terminated array containing the globs or NULL if no globs are found. The returned array must be freed with g_strfreev().

[nullable][array zero-terminated=1][transfer full]

gtk_source_language_get_style_name ()

const gchar *
gtk_source_language_get_style_name (GtkSourceLanguage *language,
                                    const gchar *style_id);

Returns the name of the style with ID style_id defined by this language .

Parameters

language	a GtkSourceLanguage.
style_id	a style ID.

Returns

the name of the style with ID style_id defined by this language or NULL if the style has no name or there is no style with ID style_id defined by this language . The returned string is owned by the language and must not be modified.

[nullable][transfer none]

gtk_source_language_get_style_ids ()

gchar **
gtk_source_language_get_style_ids (GtkSourceLanguage *language);

Returns the ids of the styles defined by this language .

Parameters

language

a GtkSourceLanguage.

Returns

a newly-allocated NULL terminated array containing ids of the styles defined by this language or NULL if no style is defined. The returned array must be freed with g_strfreev().

[nullable][array zero-terminated=1][transfer full]

gtk_source_language_get_style_fallback ()

const gchar *
gtk_source_language_get_style_fallback
                               (GtkSourceLanguage *language,
                                const gchar *style_id);

Returns the ID of the style to use if the specified style_id is not present in the current style scheme.

Parameters

language	a GtkSourceLanguage.
style_id	a style ID.

Returns

the ID of the style to use if the specified style_id is not present in the current style scheme or NULL if the style has no fallback defined. The returned string is owned by the language and must not be modified.

[nullable][transfer none]

Since: 3.4

Types and Values