Re: gtk_text_buffer_delete_interactive

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

vishnu pobox com writes:
> In a GtkTextBuffer, i'm using TextTags with editable=false to
> represent "embedded objects."  So i'd like to be able to customize
> gtk_text_buffer_delete_interactive to delete regions of uneditable
> text as a unit.  For example:
> 
> (1) The area between the angle brackets <vishnu pobox com>
> is uneditable (an email address).
> 
> (2) i position the cursor directly before the email address
> and press delete.
> 
> (3) The entire email address is deleted.
> 
> Can i add a "delete-range-interactive" signal that mirrors
> the "delete-range" signal?
> 
> If i can insert my code before "delete-range-interactive"
> then i can adjust the tags & iterators to do the right thing.
> 
> Will such a patch be acceptable?
> 

It should be possible to simply adjust the iterators in a signal
handler connected to delete_range. The deletion occurs in the
delete_range default handler which runs after your signal handlers.

Havoc