GtkSource – 5: Overview
Description: Reference for GtkSource-5: 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

## Library Initialization

Your application MUST initialize GtkSourceView from `main()`. Call `gtk_source_init()` or it’s variant within your programming language. A great place to do this is right after calling `gtk_init()`.

In language bindings, this function is often named similar to `GtkSource.init()`.