LanguageManager

Object Hierarchy:

Description:

[ CCode ( type_id = "gtk_source_language_manager_get_type ()" ) ]
public sealed class LanguageManager : Object

Provides access to [class@Language]s.

`GtkSourceLanguageManager` is an object which processes language description files and creates and stores [class@Language] objects, and provides API to access them.

Use [func@LanguageManager.get_default] to retrieve the default instance of `GtkSourceLanguageManager`, and [ method@LanguageManager.guess_language] to get a [class@Language] for given file name and content type.

Namespace: GtkSource

Package: gtksourceview-5

Content:

Properties:

public string[] language_ids { get; }
public string[] search_path { get; set; }

Static methods:

public static unowned LanguageManager get_default ()
Returns the default LanguageManager instance.

Creation methods:

public LanguageManager ()
Creates a new language manager.

Methods:

public void append_search_path (string path)
Appends path to the list of directories where the manager looks for language files.
public unowned Language? get_language (string id)
Gets the [class@Language] identified by the given id in the language manager.
public unowned string[]? get_language_ids ()
Returns the ids of the available languages.
public unowned string[] get_search_path ()
Gets the list directories where this looks for language files.
public unowned Language? guess_language (string? filename, string? content_type)
Picks a [class@Language] for given file name and content type, according to the information in lang files.
public void prepend_search_path (string path)
Prepends path to the list of directories where the manager looks for language files.
public void set_search_path (string[]? dirs)
Sets the list of directories where the this looks for language files.

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class GLib.Object