Overview

Overview

GtkSourceView is a GNOME library that extends GtkTextView, the standard GTK widget for multiline text editing. GtkSourceView adds support for syntax highlighting, undo/redo, file loading and saving, search and replace, a completion system, printing, displaying line numbers, and other features typical of a source code editor.

See the GtkSourceView website.

GtkSourceView 5 depends on GTK 4.

pkg-config name

For GtkSourceView 5, the pkg-config name is: gtksourceview-5

To compile a program that uses GtkSourceView 5, you can for example use the following command:

$ gcc hello.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtksourceview-5` -o hello