GtkSource – 5: GtkSourceView 3 -> 4 Migration Guide
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# GtkSourceView 3 -> 4 Migration Guide

## Dependencies

Both GtkSourceView 3 and GtkSourceView 4 depend on GTK 3.

## Preparation in GtkSourceView 3

GtkSourceView 3.24 is the latest stable GtkSourceView 3 version. Before continuing this porting guide, you should use the 3.24 version without using any deprecated API.

## New pkg-config name

For GtkSourceView 4, the pkg-config name is: `gtksourceview-4` To compile a program that uses GtkSourceView 4, you can for example use the following command:

    $ gcc hello.c "pkg-config --cflags --libs gtksourceview-4" -o hello

## GtkSourceView 3.99.1

- All the deprecated APIs have been removed.

- Only `<gtksourceview/gtksource.h>` can be included directly. There were already warnings about it in GtkSourceView 3. The warnings have been changed to errors.

- Only the version 2 of the GtkSourceView language definition file format is supported (for *.lang files, used for syntax highlighting). The support for the version 1 has been dropped.

## GtkSourceView 3.99.2

- `gtk_source_completion_item_new2()` has been renamed to `gtk_source_completion_item_new()`
- `gtk_source_search_context_forward2()` has been renamed to `gtk_source_search_context_forward()`.
- `gtk_source_search_context_forward_finish2()` has been renamed to `gtk_source_search_context_forward_finish()`.
- `gtk_source_search_context_backward2()` has been renamed to `gtk_source_search_context_backward()`.
- `gtk_source_search_context_backward_finish2()` has been renamed to `gtk_source_search_context_backward_finish()`.
- `gtk_source_search_context_replace2()` has been renamed to `gtk_source_search_context_replace()`.
- The `GtkSourceSearchContext:settings` property is now construct-only.

## GtkSourceView 3.99.3

No API changes.

## GtkSourceView 3.99.4

The API of the `GtkSourceView::move-lines` keybinding signal has been simplified:

- The `copy` parameter was deprecated and has been removed
- The `count` parameter has been replaced by the `down` boolean.

## GtkSourceView 3.99.5 and 3.99.6

No API changes.

## GtkSourceView 3.99.7

In order to have a better *.gir file and have less metadata to generate the `*.vapi` for Vala, the following change has been made:

- `gtk_source_completion_show()` has been renamed to `gtk_source_completion_start()`. The function conflicted with the `GtkSourceCompletion::show` signal. Note that in Vala this doesn’t require code changes because the method was already renamed to `start()` in GtkSourceView 3.

- For i18n initialization, the `gtk_source_init()` function now needs to be called. There is also the `gtk_source_finalize()` function which is convenient when using memory debugging tools.