getText

open fun getText(start: TextIter, end: TextIter, includeHiddenChars: Boolean): String

Returns the text in the range [@start,@end).

Excludes undisplayed text (text marked with tags that set the invisibility attribute) if @include_hidden_chars is false. Does not include characters representing embedded images, so byte and character indexes into the returned string do not correspond to byte and character indexes into the buffer. Contrast with method@Gtk.TextBuffer.get_slice.

Return

an allocated UTF-8 string

Parameters

start

start of a range

end

end of a range

includeHiddenChars

whether to include invisible text