Signal

GtkTextView::move-cursor

Declaration 

void
move_cursor (
  GtkTextView* self,
  GtkMovementStep* step,
  gint count,
  gboolean extend_selection,
  gpointer user_data
)

Description [src]

Gets emitted when the user initiates a cursor movement.

The ::move-cursor signal is a keybinding signal. If the cursor is not visible in text_view, this signal causes the viewport to be moved instead.

Applications should not connect to it, but may emit it with g_signal_emit_by_name() if they need to control the cursor programmatically.

The default bindings for this signal come in two variants, the variant with the Shift modifier extends the selection, the variant without it does not. There are too many key combinations to list them all here.

  • ←, →, ↑, ↓ move by individual characters/lines
  • Ctrl+←, etc. move by words/paragraphs
  • Home and End move to the ends of the buffer
  • PgUp and PgDn move vertically by pages
  • Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn move horizontally by pages.
Default handler:

The default handler is called after the handlers added via g_signal_connect().

Signal can be directly emitted on objects from user code

Parameters

step

Type: GtkMovementStep

The granularity of the move, as a GtkMovementStep.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
count

Type: gint

The number of step units to move.

extend_selection

Type: gboolean

TRUE if the move should extend the selection.